No, all art is not political. Some is, but not all.
Stephen Sondheim wrote, "Look, I made a hat, Where there never was a hat.". This speaks to the human desire to create for the sake of creation.
Ars Gratia Artis, is MGM's motto.
Victoria Wood, Ten years gone...
A Comedic, lyrical mind like no other.
Continue to Rest In well-deserved Peace...
#VictoriaWood
Due to Tottenham's wretched season, I have assigned the Cats the title of, Emotional Support Animals, despite their protestations.
So this morning, reading the last in the Pip and Ravi trilogy, they performed their duties whilst I was being a Librocubicularist.
#CatsAndBooks #drawingfunnypictures
"Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us living creatures are dependent on one another." –Pope Francis
When one is able to look out of one's own window to see Cowslips and Dandelions, and a #WeirdNotWonderful creature, one knows that Spring is here, so seriously, Mother Nature, Stop with the rain...
#FlowerPowerFriday #DrawingFunnyPictures #FlowersOnFriday #BeautyInspires
If the story is not well told, then it failed.
Art should be judged on how it says something, not on what it says...
A familiar Ol' Wives Tale, repeated endlessly by the young husbands of Grimsby, is that if one should encounter a rainbow and a member of the #NonsensicalOrnithology family, at the same time, one will receive Chocolate Digestives in 30 days.
#WhimsicalWednesday #DrawingFunnyPictures #rainbow
Many Congratulations...
Well deserved...
This has upset me.
Love her music, her Christmas album is a mainstay in our house from Thanksgiving until early January...
RIP Moya Brennan...
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
BBC great lives: Oliver Postgate.
A wonderful tribute to a creative, gentle man who created, with Peter Firmin, wonderful homemade worlds...
#OliverPostgate
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Ricky Gervais has received the Jane Goodall Award for Unwavering Advocacy for Animals.
Read more on the PBN website.
With sadness, as of May I’ll probably have to let go of our Royal Mail PO Box. Our small not-for-profit Society just can’t afford these rates. However, I have great confidence the slimmed down address will still work, and we can keep aiming to #PromoteLetters… ☺️✉️👍
There’s a new generation of chickenhawks that love the Iran war.
They must be challenged.
From @realtimers.bsky.social with Bill Maher last night.
The fiery full episode is available on demand on HBO Max now.
And replaying on CNN tonight at 8ET.
Stop using Peanuts characters to make such an ugly point.
Draw your own cartoons if you feel the need, but stop spitting in the face of Charles M Schulz, a genuinely funny and gentle man, and his creations.
Cartoon Cats and Mr. Gervais.
Sounds most enjoyable.
We are back to Daffodils today, for #flowerpowerfriday...
Nature's beauty shifts, but #WeirdNotWonderful ridiculousness remains constant...
#flowersonfriday #DrawingFunnyPictures #BeautyInspires
Seriously:
Create your own characters, DRAW YOUR OWN CARTOONS...
Stop using the creations of Charles M Schulz, a genuinely funny and gentle man, to make such an ugly point.
If you feel the need to make it, then put some creative effort into it, leave Charlie Brown and Snoopy alone.
Conventional thought informs us that England loves their eccentrics, but when a true offbeat and original English creative dies, Glen Baxter, the BBC, the institution responsible for the preservation of British Culture, doesn't even mention it. On their website.
Disappointing.
#glenbaxter
"That monster I've been feeding is out of control... Won't anyone be able to do something"...
Andrew Neil is a man who has done so much damage...
If one Should enter the small town of Horseleap, on the Offaly/Westmeath border, one will encounter a postbox.
The guardians of this postbox are an individual called Gerald and his familiar, Arthur, and one must answer 3 questions to post in this postbox.
#drawingfunnypictures #postboxsaturday
He never liked the fact that the Dog was taller than him.
There is most definitely a Culture at large to try and cancel people who are going against orthodoxy.
The fact that these attempts don't always work, doesn't prove otherwise. The culture stands.
Floral tastemakers have been in touch, and I can now confirm, as the first Friday of April commences, purple is the latest thing, the new yellow, if you will.
And of course, those #WeirdNotWonderful creatures shall be adding Absurdity.
#FlowerPowerFriday #FlowersOnFriday #DrawingFunnyPictures
She's being flippant...
Attempting levity...
She really doesn't care about men wearing Hoodies...
Glen Baxter has left us.
A wonderfully absurdist illustrator who looked askance and ridiculed those who took themselves far too seriously.
Like me, he drew funny pictures and loved the Marx Brothers.
How many of us are left????
artlyst.com/glen-baxter-...
❌👑 except...
I am no supporter of the Vulgar, nasty, unhinged occupant of the oval office, but this is one ugly message...
And to use the creations of Charles M Schulz, a genuinely funny and gentle man, to make it makes it ten times worse.
Draw your own cartoons to make this message, leave Peanuts alone.
Does anybody remember the song, Green Door? Made famous in the 80s by Shakin' Stevens.
"There's an old piano, doo bee doo bee doo, behind the green door"
Well in Ballycumber, Co. Offaly, there is a postbox beside a green door. Equally deserving of a song.
#postboxsaturday
#drawingfunnypictures
I wonder who will pay tribute to Mr. Maher at his ceremony?
Will it be other comedians (hopefully) or will he get his "Intellectual" Dark Web friends like the humourless Samuel Harris and Dave Rubin
This could be the unfunniest ceremony in the history of the prize.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
A discarded Crisp packet marrs today's #FlowerPowerFriday.
I sometimes wish that those #WeirdNotWonderful Creatures were more like The Wombles, then the one pictured, would remove the crisp packet, take it back to its house, and turn it into something useful, like an Oven Glove.
#FlowersOnFriday
