Bono and Marina Abramovic

Some people spend more time thinking about what shirt they're going to wear than they do thinking about the world.

It's probably always been this way.

And what's wrong with that?

That it's nothing new is comforting, in the way wearing a comfortable shirt is comforting.

Wearing a shirt made of the world is not comforting, it's discomforting.

Because it's discomforting it seems fair that some money can be made from wearing the uncomfortable shirt rather than the comfortable one, after having thought about it.

Bono sure looks different these days. I guess it's been awhile since I've seen him. I'm not sure I'd recognize Bono now, without the caption in the newspaper identifying him as Bono, but it's Bono allright.

You have to admire Bono, he's always up to something. And he's pretty darn consistent too.

Yes, Bono's capable of change--he doesn't look the way he used to look, for instance, it's true--and it's possible to believe that Bono spends more time thinking about the world than he does about the shirt he's chosen to wear.

The artist Marina Abramovic has a new gallery show in New York City. In it, viewers are given noise-cancelling earphones and then blindfolded. The invitation from Marina Abramovic to the viewer is to see how much time the viewer can spend seeing Marina Abramovic's new gallery show without using their senses of hearing or of sight.

I haven't seen the new Marina Abramovic show, but I can see how it might raise all sorts of questions about the importance of appearance