It was a glitch. Because of some technical difficulties today, some of my draft posts went out last night in my "jimlog" email and appeared on the site for a while. I apologize for any confusion...

<img src="/assets/2008/09/Toles_wall_hanging.jpeg" width="500" height="439" alt="Toles_wall_hanging.jpeg"/ It looks like I'm obsessed with cartoons this afternoon, so one more may not be a surp...

<img src="/assets/2008/09/Dilbert_finance.jpeg" width="600" height="210" alt="Dilbert_finance.jpeg"/ And so the last myth of Republican competence has been exploded: I'm referring to the abili...

Alexander Cockburn knows how to turn a phrase - or two. In a piece in the current The Nation titled "Fatal Distraction" he outlines what the "miraculous conception" [my phase] of Sarah Palin as VP...

in the end, invisible even to Republicans So now we have to nationalize those stars of the capitalist firmament, the monopolistic conglomerates we've been encouraging for decades, because with the...

untitled (towers) 2008 Both towers of the Brooklyn Bridge are reflected in the waters of the East [er, . . . tidal strait] at the top of this photograph. The picture was taken yesterday from the ...

untitled (self-portrait with Praktiflex) 1961 Occasionally someone will ask about the brevity of my "about" page, but for years I have put off enlarging it. I suppose it was because I couldn't d...

lovely shirt, Noah, but don't try to eat it I found Noah Lyon in the middle of the largest of the pieces in Jennifer Steinkamp's show, "Daisy Bell", last Sunday when Barry and I visited Lehmann Ma...

untitled (yellow slickers) 2008 Early last Saturday we met up with a visiting friend who had never been to New York before, so of course we didn't let the rain keep us inside. We ended up walking...

just put in a parking lot Remember that glorious central transit hub we were promised? The one they've been dangling in front of all of our eyes for years? Gone. It's been cancelled. It looks...