Romney, Obama, Rondo, Muller, and Gaultier

With the news that the Republican Party has raised $80 million, outraising the Democratic Party which has raised $60 million, once considered an insurmoutable sum, comes the disturbing possibility that Mitt Romney might become President of the United States, only slightly more disturbing than the possibility of Barack Obama being elected President for one more term.

The Celtics sucked last night, pretty much beaten down by one man, Lebron James, in what's supposed to be a 'team game.' Rajan Rondo, the Celtics genius point guard, does things never before done on a basketball court. Rondo is a artist who plays like Jean Cocteau is whispering in his ear the words from his film, "Orpheus": "just astonish me", god tells the poet when the poet asks the god what is expected of him. 

Though she writes about living in the drab totalitarian circumstances of an eastern Europe, where individuals are clamped down tight under grey siberian skies, Herta Muller is a writer a reader reads with growing respect and even awe. On pg. 49 of her book, "The Appointment, she writes, "There's always someone you can love, if you put your mind to it", a singular, random instance of her astonishing perspective.

Seeing the Jean-Paul Gaultier show at the deYoung Museum created in this viewer the desire to actually look at art again as if it might have something to say, a desire he'd lost somewhere between living in Los Angeles where he looked at a lot of art and moving to San Francisco where's he's looked at very little. He's going back to the deYoung to have another look before the show ends in August.