Fruit o’ the Loon
’07 Installment # 2
If I fail to offend everyone, I’m sorry.
SO SHOOT ME, ALREADY!
The Loon sent out the first installment of the 2007 ”Fruits o’ the Loon” four days early (on December 28, 2006). Four readers noticed; all these eagle-eyes should be CEOs of national accounting firms. Here is the Loon’s lame excuse. Rather than confess to the charge of calendarly dementia, the facts are these. Writing midway through the last FotL he doubted he had not enough copy to finish a final ’06 installment, and so, he labeled it prematurely as #1 ’07, but, alas, he erred—ain’t the first time—a brief boost of writing energy on the final installment finished it early, but he was then too pooped to go back and change it because he had already grown sick of reading it—half of writing…..is editing. And so….NOW you know the rest of the story. That’s the Loon's story and he ain’t agonna change it.
CRAZY AL’S NEWS DIGEST
MARIJUANA
It has been reported (don’t ask me by whom) that marijuana is America’s biggest cash crop. Since a couple of 40 gallon trash cans stuffed full of fresh harvested Mary Jane can sell (so the police say) for $75,000 on the street, which, incidentally, is the primary site for retail, “bigness” of the crop has nothing to do with bigness of the acreage planted, as much of marijuana is grown indoors. This indoor agriculture provides dramatic decorative houseplants, generous indoor production of pure oxygen, plus a nifty source of income from an off-the-books cottage industry. You don’t often get such a neat three-fur.
However, after Crazy Al pondered the vagarities of taxation for recreational commodities, he has come to believe that MJ should be legalized and taxed. For starters, if MJ is our biggest cash crop, there must be a booming demand for it. For nexters, Crazy Al once read the whole Bible and he can remember no Biblical prohibition against MJ. For second nexters, Crazy Al has never heard of anyone ODing on reefers. For lasters, why in the hell doesn’t the Gummint tax cannabinol like they do alcohol and nicotine? Government reason # 1 is that MJ has been reported to be the gate-way drug. See, MJ use leads to use of worse drugs. That might be true, since the same street peddlers sell all the illegal stuff. BUT, if you legalize MJ, then the street pushers can’t compete with every Circle K which sells reefers by the pack to every viper who walks in the door. Once legalized, anyone can plant MJ, and the extra supply brings down the retail price. If the government doesn’t get too greedy and set the tax so high that black-market MJ can compete, then store-bought MJ becomes the only retail supply. Taxation on nicotine must not be too high, because, when was the last time you heard of people buying black market roll-your-own cigarettes? Similarly, booze is taxed heavily. The Loon read somewhere long ago, that it costs fifty cents to distill a gallon of alcohol that goes into bottles full of good quality sippin’ hooch, but it costs fifty dollars to buy a gallon of good sippin’ hooch. The difference is soaked up by packaging, advertising, distribution, profits and, a big hunk by taxation. To be sure, there are still stills in them hills of Appalachia, but most of the hooch consumed in America is purchased across the counter or bar. So, if Crazy Al can assume that nicotine and potable alcohol are taxed at reasonable levels, (he would dearly love to know the total State and Federal tax takes for each*), he must assume that the government has the wherewithal and savvy to tax legalized MJ at a level to make it both economically available to every adult who wants it, and, at the same time, provide some money for the government coffers. Let’s examine all the benefits from Crazy Al’s ”Legalize and Tax” proposal. With money coming in from MJ taxes, he will have less taxes to pay. Prisons are able to release many prisoners and the courts will have fewer hopheads and peddlers send to the clank, which reduces government expenses, and reduce his taxes. The extra men available in the work force will cause a drop in labor costs (more supply makes prices fall—has it ever been otherwise?). The reduced cost of labor reduces the cost of every domestic products and services, and thus, cuts down on Crazy Al’s costs for everything. The MJ grown in the fresh air and pure sunshine is cheaper than MJ grown under “Gro-Lux” lights, and this reduces the demand on power, and thus reduces power rates, and that will reduce Crazy Al’s electric bills. The farmers can have an alternative crop, one which will grow in ditches and on bad ground, and this extra income will decrease the needed government support for farming, and so, Crazy Al’s taxes should, additionally, go down. Further, a ready supply of cheap domestic MJ would cut down on the illegal importation of MJ and this would reduce our negative balance of trade, and if that is corrected, it should reduce my costs of buying exported goods. The bottom line is this; once MJ is legalized, Crazy Al will become rich, and everything he buys will cost less.
* Can we presume that tobacco and alcohol annual tax dollar numbers are closely-guarded government secrets?
ETHANOL
Speaking of alcohol, specifically the non-potable form we can burn in cars which is commonly referred to as “ethanol”, there is a lot of semi-pseudo-misinformation out there about it. If you believe everything you read and hear, alcohol distilled from corn is the domestic energy panacea cure for many of our problems, e.g., our reliance on imported OPEC price-fixing cartel oil, and the fear that petroleum deposits will soon run out, leaving us in the dark, cooking over twig fires in the back yard, or sitting helplessly by the side of the road in our marooned SUVs.
Crazy Al has heard that it costs about as much in energy to produce ethanol as you get when you burn it. Where does this energy of production come from? Hey, what do you take me for, an agricultural or Industrial engineer? Crazy Al has no idea, but he is also told that the cost in energy to extract oil, ship it, and refine it into gasoline is cheaper by far than it is to plant corn, fertilize it, cultivate it, keep the pests from eating it and the weeds from taking over, harvesting it and then converting it into ethanol at an equivalency of energy with gasoline, and AT SOME DOLLAR NUMBER FOR THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL,WHICH IS MUCH HIGHER THAN ANY WE HAVE HAD TO PAY….ever. Since Crazy Al believes in regulation of prices by the hidden hand of a free enterprise system of open and unfettered markets, he has to ask, “what EVER in the world is going on here? Well, the farm lobby is HUGE. Maybe not as huge as the building trades lobby or the Trial Lawyers lobby, but easily big enough to make law-makers open to suggestions for a renewable domestic energy source. Philosophically speaking coal, oil and gas are renewable—if we wait long enough, the plants and animals of today will die and become buried and ultimately become converted into coal, gas and oil, but when it comes to law-making and the money which lubricates it, philosophy is seldom considered, and, besides, Crazy Al isn’t called “crazy” for no reason.
Ethanol burns cleaner? Crazy Al has read that producing a gallon of ethanol will produce as much green-house gases as burning a gallon of gasoline.
Ethanol will reduce our reliance on imported energy sources? Crazy Al has read that if we convert to 100% ethanol for transportation, we will have to import natural gas. If we distill ethanol from all of our corn now in production, it will produce only a small fraction of our needs for transportation energy. Even if we turn all of our arable land into corn production for ethanol, we would not come close to being free from the use of petroleum products for energy.
Actually, if we could produce ethanol from corn stalks, we would be in energy Sweet City, but the problem is that we need mult-mega-tonnage quantities of enzymes to turn the cellulose in corn stalks into sugar which would allow the wonderfully provident yeasts to turn the sugar into ethanol. The science for the technology of economically producing all those tons of enzymes is still not available.
Ethanol can be siphoned from your car, and, in a pinch, used as a fair substitute for Vodka? Crazy Al knows there are ways to contaminate Ethanol so that the taxes from drinkable alcohol are not imperiled—the government is seldom happy about imperiling existing tax revenue streams.
Crazy Al is concerned that using most of our corn for ethanol production is going to drive up the cost of many of his staples of life, Corn Flakes, Corn Bread, and Tortillas, unless we import cheap Mexican corn which will increase our negative balance of payments—or something like that.
CANCER
Crazy Al cannot understand why everyone is so down on cancer. Hang on for a fast philosophical ride in support of cancer. To begin with, Crazy Al believes that everyone has to die of something, or has he inadvertently missed an important concept? Now that we are all living longer, why are we spending so much money on diseases that are usually the killers of the old and unproductive members of our society? Back in the caveman days, people died at a younger age. They died of infectious diseases (rampant flying shit-squirts), parasitism (malaria) mal-nutrition (failure of the berry and root crops), environmental privation (Ice Ages and the like), and worse, young succulent humans often died while being eaten by big hungry Saber-toothed Tigers. Today, those longevity-reducing forces are less evident. BUT, pragmatic ‘ol Ma Biology has to have some method of last resort to cull the old and unproductive, or else we would all live until, say, the next Ice Age. Think for a moment what coastal Florida would look like if everyone lived a lot longer. Stop thinking, I’ill tell you. You wouldn’t be able to move because of golf-cart grid-lock, and the new political party “Curmudgeons Forever” would infect national political judgment with “senile logic”, and, worse, the oldsters would overwhelm the newspaper Op/Ed pages with grumpy letters.
Okay! It is a given that all cancer isn’t alike. Sure, let’s continue to do research on cures for cancer of young people—they have long productive lives ahead. That is to say if we legalize Marijuana and keep them out of prison. And, by all means, let’s pour more money into curing breast cancer than curing prostate cancer, BECAUSE breast cancer hits women who are younger than men who get prostate cancer.
How about a little thought experiment. Let’s say that all cancer disappeared tomorrow. Now, what has changed? Well, not much, aside from all the oncologists cross/training into cosmetic surgery, and there is suddenly a free-up of oodles of NIH cancer research money. Soon, however, we will discover that there are more old unproductive non-tax-paying people around. call it CG (Creeping Geriatricization) of the population. Soon the media will start a new increased drum-beat to cure cardiovascular disease in our lifetime (since the lifetime would be so much longer, the Loon thinks that there would be no big hurry about it). I can understand why people have a particular aversion to a disease in which traitorous cells eat them up from the inside, as compared to, say, cardiovascular disease which is more like acceptable “fair wear and tear”, even if it comes to “catastrophic failure” of vital parts.
GHOULISH OFFICE POOLS
The AP reported that a bunch of websites have erupted in which there is competition in predicting the dates of demise of lists of celebrities. Examples are “theghoulpool.com, cash4cadavers.com, and “youbettheirlilfe.com, and my favorite “flymetothetomb.com” for the “Old Blue Eyes Memorial Death Watch”. Some people think these morbid activities by people who obviously have too much free time, are in hideous bad taste. However, Zach Love, founder of “Stiffs.com” said “I’ve always been somewhat disdainful of how we deify celebrities. This seemed a perfect way to deflate that.” Crazy Al is 100% in Zach’s corner on this. And, you can win some money in the pools, but not enough, Crazy Al would hope, for contestants to put out contracts to snuff a celebrity. What a minute; let’s think about this. Even though Crazy Al can’t totally buy into to the comments of David Samuels, who wrote, “…the free-floating weirdness of American life will always escape any attempt to make us seem like a normal country rather than a furious human-wave on the farthest shores of reality” but, in all honesty, Crazy Al would chip in until it hurt for a hit on The Donald.
NOTABLE QUOTES
“I don’t believe in mathematics” Albert Einstein (You tell ‘em, Al)
2. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” Albert Einstein
“Prejudice” has now acquired a bad reputation, but where, tell me, would we be without it? The practice of prejudging humans is certainly problematic, but consider what would happen if everyone who is presented with a need for a subjective decision had to go all the way back to rational ground zero to make a decision; instead of using their experience as a guide for making a decision? Say, you took Ibuprofen once and it made you break out in hives, and aspirin never did that. Should you be prejudiced against Ibuprofen? Should someone be able to whip a “Shame on you” because you were unfair to Ibuprofen, and did not give it another chance? Maybe you got a bad batch of Ibuprofen. Maybe you were temporarily sensitive to Ibuprofen. How do you know for sure that the next pill will give you hives? Gimmie a break; you would have to be crazy to not rely on prejudice to guide the decision to not take Ibuprofen.
ABSTRACT ART
The Loon has little use for any of it. He has been given to understand that abstract art is no representation of anything in the physical (real) world, but rather, the art is done to elicit emotional response. Given that the artist’s abstract work may be an expression of the artist’s emotion, be it, love of beauty, or rage at an unkind world, or even bewilderment at societal nonsense, but the Loon remains unconvinced that this is the case, but even if it is, the Loon believes that the emotion is not transferable in the abstract art to the viewer of the art. The viewer may have an emotional response to the art which is entirely different from that which the artist was trying to elicit. Agreed, few of us are willing to drip many colors of paint on a canvas on the floor, and then create emotion-laden abstract art by scrooching around in the paint with the seat of our Levis, but, let me put it to you this way. What better way to show emotion through art than to do it yourself? Whenever, the Loon hears anyone, including the artist, describe the meaning of a piece of abstract art, the Loon’s first impression is usually, “Say what?” To use a rather loose analogy, describing the meaning of abstract art is rather like the hopeless task of subjectively describing an orgasm, or, even worse, objectively describing an orgasm as a parasympathetic nervous system explosion—please, I have to ask, just what in the hell does that tell you?
Allen “The Loon” Hall
January 16 2007 in sunny warm south Florida—I thought you might want to know that.
’07 Installment # 2
If I fail to offend everyone, I’m sorry.
SO SHOOT ME, ALREADY!
The Loon sent out the first installment of the 2007 ”Fruits o’ the Loon” four days early (on December 28, 2006). Four readers noticed; all these eagle-eyes should be CEOs of national accounting firms. Here is the Loon’s lame excuse. Rather than confess to the charge of calendarly dementia, the facts are these. Writing midway through the last FotL he doubted he had not enough copy to finish a final ’06 installment, and so, he labeled it prematurely as #1 ’07, but, alas, he erred—ain’t the first time—a brief boost of writing energy on the final installment finished it early, but he was then too pooped to go back and change it because he had already grown sick of reading it—half of writing…..is editing. And so….NOW you know the rest of the story. That’s the Loon's story and he ain’t agonna change it.
CRAZY AL’S NEWS DIGEST
MARIJUANA
It has been reported (don’t ask me by whom) that marijuana is America’s biggest cash crop. Since a couple of 40 gallon trash cans stuffed full of fresh harvested Mary Jane can sell (so the police say) for $75,000 on the street, which, incidentally, is the primary site for retail, “bigness” of the crop has nothing to do with bigness of the acreage planted, as much of marijuana is grown indoors. This indoor agriculture provides dramatic decorative houseplants, generous indoor production of pure oxygen, plus a nifty source of income from an off-the-books cottage industry. You don’t often get such a neat three-fur.
However, after Crazy Al pondered the vagarities of taxation for recreational commodities, he has come to believe that MJ should be legalized and taxed. For starters, if MJ is our biggest cash crop, there must be a booming demand for it. For nexters, Crazy Al once read the whole Bible and he can remember no Biblical prohibition against MJ. For second nexters, Crazy Al has never heard of anyone ODing on reefers. For lasters, why in the hell doesn’t the Gummint tax cannabinol like they do alcohol and nicotine? Government reason # 1 is that MJ has been reported to be the gate-way drug. See, MJ use leads to use of worse drugs. That might be true, since the same street peddlers sell all the illegal stuff. BUT, if you legalize MJ, then the street pushers can’t compete with every Circle K which sells reefers by the pack to every viper who walks in the door. Once legalized, anyone can plant MJ, and the extra supply brings down the retail price. If the government doesn’t get too greedy and set the tax so high that black-market MJ can compete, then store-bought MJ becomes the only retail supply. Taxation on nicotine must not be too high, because, when was the last time you heard of people buying black market roll-your-own cigarettes? Similarly, booze is taxed heavily. The Loon read somewhere long ago, that it costs fifty cents to distill a gallon of alcohol that goes into bottles full of good quality sippin’ hooch, but it costs fifty dollars to buy a gallon of good sippin’ hooch. The difference is soaked up by packaging, advertising, distribution, profits and, a big hunk by taxation. To be sure, there are still stills in them hills of Appalachia, but most of the hooch consumed in America is purchased across the counter or bar. So, if Crazy Al can assume that nicotine and potable alcohol are taxed at reasonable levels, (he would dearly love to know the total State and Federal tax takes for each*), he must assume that the government has the wherewithal and savvy to tax legalized MJ at a level to make it both economically available to every adult who wants it, and, at the same time, provide some money for the government coffers. Let’s examine all the benefits from Crazy Al’s ”Legalize and Tax” proposal. With money coming in from MJ taxes, he will have less taxes to pay. Prisons are able to release many prisoners and the courts will have fewer hopheads and peddlers send to the clank, which reduces government expenses, and reduce his taxes. The extra men available in the work force will cause a drop in labor costs (more supply makes prices fall—has it ever been otherwise?). The reduced cost of labor reduces the cost of every domestic products and services, and thus, cuts down on Crazy Al’s costs for everything. The MJ grown in the fresh air and pure sunshine is cheaper than MJ grown under “Gro-Lux” lights, and this reduces the demand on power, and thus reduces power rates, and that will reduce Crazy Al’s electric bills. The farmers can have an alternative crop, one which will grow in ditches and on bad ground, and this extra income will decrease the needed government support for farming, and so, Crazy Al’s taxes should, additionally, go down. Further, a ready supply of cheap domestic MJ would cut down on the illegal importation of MJ and this would reduce our negative balance of trade, and if that is corrected, it should reduce my costs of buying exported goods. The bottom line is this; once MJ is legalized, Crazy Al will become rich, and everything he buys will cost less.
* Can we presume that tobacco and alcohol annual tax dollar numbers are closely-guarded government secrets?
ETHANOL
Speaking of alcohol, specifically the non-potable form we can burn in cars which is commonly referred to as “ethanol”, there is a lot of semi-pseudo-misinformation out there about it. If you believe everything you read and hear, alcohol distilled from corn is the domestic energy panacea cure for many of our problems, e.g., our reliance on imported OPEC price-fixing cartel oil, and the fear that petroleum deposits will soon run out, leaving us in the dark, cooking over twig fires in the back yard, or sitting helplessly by the side of the road in our marooned SUVs.
Crazy Al has heard that it costs about as much in energy to produce ethanol as you get when you burn it. Where does this energy of production come from? Hey, what do you take me for, an agricultural or Industrial engineer? Crazy Al has no idea, but he is also told that the cost in energy to extract oil, ship it, and refine it into gasoline is cheaper by far than it is to plant corn, fertilize it, cultivate it, keep the pests from eating it and the weeds from taking over, harvesting it and then converting it into ethanol at an equivalency of energy with gasoline, and AT SOME DOLLAR NUMBER FOR THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL,WHICH IS MUCH HIGHER THAN ANY WE HAVE HAD TO PAY….ever. Since Crazy Al believes in regulation of prices by the hidden hand of a free enterprise system of open and unfettered markets, he has to ask, “what EVER in the world is going on here? Well, the farm lobby is HUGE. Maybe not as huge as the building trades lobby or the Trial Lawyers lobby, but easily big enough to make law-makers open to suggestions for a renewable domestic energy source. Philosophically speaking coal, oil and gas are renewable—if we wait long enough, the plants and animals of today will die and become buried and ultimately become converted into coal, gas and oil, but when it comes to law-making and the money which lubricates it, philosophy is seldom considered, and, besides, Crazy Al isn’t called “crazy” for no reason.
Ethanol burns cleaner? Crazy Al has read that producing a gallon of ethanol will produce as much green-house gases as burning a gallon of gasoline.
Ethanol will reduce our reliance on imported energy sources? Crazy Al has read that if we convert to 100% ethanol for transportation, we will have to import natural gas. If we distill ethanol from all of our corn now in production, it will produce only a small fraction of our needs for transportation energy. Even if we turn all of our arable land into corn production for ethanol, we would not come close to being free from the use of petroleum products for energy.
Actually, if we could produce ethanol from corn stalks, we would be in energy Sweet City, but the problem is that we need mult-mega-tonnage quantities of enzymes to turn the cellulose in corn stalks into sugar which would allow the wonderfully provident yeasts to turn the sugar into ethanol. The science for the technology of economically producing all those tons of enzymes is still not available.
Ethanol can be siphoned from your car, and, in a pinch, used as a fair substitute for Vodka? Crazy Al knows there are ways to contaminate Ethanol so that the taxes from drinkable alcohol are not imperiled—the government is seldom happy about imperiling existing tax revenue streams.
Crazy Al is concerned that using most of our corn for ethanol production is going to drive up the cost of many of his staples of life, Corn Flakes, Corn Bread, and Tortillas, unless we import cheap Mexican corn which will increase our negative balance of payments—or something like that.
CANCER
Crazy Al cannot understand why everyone is so down on cancer. Hang on for a fast philosophical ride in support of cancer. To begin with, Crazy Al believes that everyone has to die of something, or has he inadvertently missed an important concept? Now that we are all living longer, why are we spending so much money on diseases that are usually the killers of the old and unproductive members of our society? Back in the caveman days, people died at a younger age. They died of infectious diseases (rampant flying shit-squirts), parasitism (malaria) mal-nutrition (failure of the berry and root crops), environmental privation (Ice Ages and the like), and worse, young succulent humans often died while being eaten by big hungry Saber-toothed Tigers. Today, those longevity-reducing forces are less evident. BUT, pragmatic ‘ol Ma Biology has to have some method of last resort to cull the old and unproductive, or else we would all live until, say, the next Ice Age. Think for a moment what coastal Florida would look like if everyone lived a lot longer. Stop thinking, I’ill tell you. You wouldn’t be able to move because of golf-cart grid-lock, and the new political party “Curmudgeons Forever” would infect national political judgment with “senile logic”, and, worse, the oldsters would overwhelm the newspaper Op/Ed pages with grumpy letters.
Okay! It is a given that all cancer isn’t alike. Sure, let’s continue to do research on cures for cancer of young people—they have long productive lives ahead. That is to say if we legalize Marijuana and keep them out of prison. And, by all means, let’s pour more money into curing breast cancer than curing prostate cancer, BECAUSE breast cancer hits women who are younger than men who get prostate cancer.
How about a little thought experiment. Let’s say that all cancer disappeared tomorrow. Now, what has changed? Well, not much, aside from all the oncologists cross/training into cosmetic surgery, and there is suddenly a free-up of oodles of NIH cancer research money. Soon, however, we will discover that there are more old unproductive non-tax-paying people around. call it CG (Creeping Geriatricization) of the population. Soon the media will start a new increased drum-beat to cure cardiovascular disease in our lifetime (since the lifetime would be so much longer, the Loon thinks that there would be no big hurry about it). I can understand why people have a particular aversion to a disease in which traitorous cells eat them up from the inside, as compared to, say, cardiovascular disease which is more like acceptable “fair wear and tear”, even if it comes to “catastrophic failure” of vital parts.
GHOULISH OFFICE POOLS
The AP reported that a bunch of websites have erupted in which there is competition in predicting the dates of demise of lists of celebrities. Examples are “theghoulpool.com, cash4cadavers.com, and “youbettheirlilfe.com, and my favorite “flymetothetomb.com” for the “Old Blue Eyes Memorial Death Watch”. Some people think these morbid activities by people who obviously have too much free time, are in hideous bad taste. However, Zach Love, founder of “Stiffs.com” said “I’ve always been somewhat disdainful of how we deify celebrities. This seemed a perfect way to deflate that.” Crazy Al is 100% in Zach’s corner on this. And, you can win some money in the pools, but not enough, Crazy Al would hope, for contestants to put out contracts to snuff a celebrity. What a minute; let’s think about this. Even though Crazy Al can’t totally buy into to the comments of David Samuels, who wrote, “…the free-floating weirdness of American life will always escape any attempt to make us seem like a normal country rather than a furious human-wave on the farthest shores of reality” but, in all honesty, Crazy Al would chip in until it hurt for a hit on The Donald.
NOTABLE QUOTES
“I don’t believe in mathematics” Albert Einstein (You tell ‘em, Al)
2. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” Albert Einstein
“Prejudice” has now acquired a bad reputation, but where, tell me, would we be without it? The practice of prejudging humans is certainly problematic, but consider what would happen if everyone who is presented with a need for a subjective decision had to go all the way back to rational ground zero to make a decision; instead of using their experience as a guide for making a decision? Say, you took Ibuprofen once and it made you break out in hives, and aspirin never did that. Should you be prejudiced against Ibuprofen? Should someone be able to whip a “Shame on you” because you were unfair to Ibuprofen, and did not give it another chance? Maybe you got a bad batch of Ibuprofen. Maybe you were temporarily sensitive to Ibuprofen. How do you know for sure that the next pill will give you hives? Gimmie a break; you would have to be crazy to not rely on prejudice to guide the decision to not take Ibuprofen.
ABSTRACT ART
The Loon has little use for any of it. He has been given to understand that abstract art is no representation of anything in the physical (real) world, but rather, the art is done to elicit emotional response. Given that the artist’s abstract work may be an expression of the artist’s emotion, be it, love of beauty, or rage at an unkind world, or even bewilderment at societal nonsense, but the Loon remains unconvinced that this is the case, but even if it is, the Loon believes that the emotion is not transferable in the abstract art to the viewer of the art. The viewer may have an emotional response to the art which is entirely different from that which the artist was trying to elicit. Agreed, few of us are willing to drip many colors of paint on a canvas on the floor, and then create emotion-laden abstract art by scrooching around in the paint with the seat of our Levis, but, let me put it to you this way. What better way to show emotion through art than to do it yourself? Whenever, the Loon hears anyone, including the artist, describe the meaning of a piece of abstract art, the Loon’s first impression is usually, “Say what?” To use a rather loose analogy, describing the meaning of abstract art is rather like the hopeless task of subjectively describing an orgasm, or, even worse, objectively describing an orgasm as a parasympathetic nervous system explosion—please, I have to ask, just what in the hell does that tell you?
Allen “The Loon” Hall
January 16 2007 in sunny warm south Florida—I thought you might want to know that.
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