This is the REAL Harlem Shake — #SavetheShake (Video)

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I wanted to leap out of my chair and dance within ten seconds: the viral meme has nothing on the original dance.

Is the “Harlem Shake” Racist? Harlem Reacts to the Internet Dance Craze (Video)

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See what Harlem residents have to say about the internet’s latest meme.

“I am not wearing yoga pants to oppress your sexuality or tempt you into sin.”

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Julie Gillis says that her choice of pants are her choice, and hers alone, and that the uptick in these stretchy, wonderful pants in culture is not even about anyone but the wearers. It’s about comfort, happiness, and health.

Hey Baby, I’m Broke, Let’s Dance!

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Stepping back from being “a have” just for having’s sake.

“Why do you need a ‘Purity Ball’ to talk about sex with your daughters?”

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These are comments by Lance, Kitti, Dawn on the post “Dance With Your Daughter, but Not for Purity”.

Wei Wei’s Marble Construction Helmet

Wei Wei, China's greatest contemporary artist, is exhibiting down at the Hirsshorn Museum in Washington, D.C.  I saw the exhibit other day and made  videos of a couple of his works.  The one here is a marble life-size sculpture of a construction helmet.  After I loaded the video onto my computer, I watched it and took a picture of one of the frames.  I edited this picture some, and this is what I came up with.

A Gallant in Gtown

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I took this picture in Georgetown, D.C. before I went to a cocktail party.

Sigmund Freud Said Abnormal

I would be William Shakespeare—zounds. / But I am madder than 12 Ezra Pounds. [Poem]

Woman on an Escalator

I took this photograph without looking.  I held the camera on my left hip and clicked when I clicked.  There is a lot to be said about art by chance.
Dupont Circle subway stop Washington D.C. USA July 18 2012

Three Happy Pedestrians

The temperature was 101, and I was standing, not moving, and I was sweating, and I’m not a sweater, and people kept walking by.
1 block north of Dupont Circle Washington D.C. USA July 18 2012

Panhandler

This gentleman was panhandling on the sidewalk down at Dupont Circle Washington D.C. USA. and graciously allowed me to take his photograph.
July 18 2012.

My flab despair

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One Dollar, Two

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This is a mad-capped, in-the-tradition-of-modern-art depiction of a notice I received from my bank, Wells Fargo, telling me that my account had, imagine, been inexplicably compromised, but through the bank’s humble, heroic and unremunerated efforts, no one was able to pilfer from me the $4.27 I keep in my checking account, so that I might feel secure.

Man With a Back Pack

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Soon a manager

Soon a manager   Bulbous watermelon butt another obese American Working in Starbuck’s for $7.25 an hour The civilization shall fall like the Roman Empire’s Emperor to Al Qaeda if we stop fighting In Afghanistan and somewhere in Africa Where the vermin fornicate at night in their odd Indian chief turbans and reproduce more Of [...]

The mooose

The mooose   I was interested in both their strangenesses they Were young like Pocahontas I asked one to look at Me in her Cinderella little Glass slippers which were forever silver with black buttons at the toe.  She did Not notice, or askance.  The other turned away sipping drink drink from her Starbucks latte [...]