-
Click to subscribe to RSS
Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Dead Blogging ‘The Art of Croquet’ at the Fuller Craft Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled down to Brockton the other day to check out the Fuller Craft Museum’s current exhibits and say, they were swell. The main event is Interpreting Change: Weavers’ Guild of Boston – 1922 – 2022 (through October … Continue reading
$10m for a Mickey Mantle Topps Card? Bid on *My* Autograph!
Last night, as I was working my way through the Sunday New York Times (there really should be a federal subsidy for doing that, don’t you think?), I came across this full-page ad in the A section. Seriously – a … Continue reading
The Hardworking Staff Is Moonlighting At *Ask Doctor Ads*
As many of you splendid readers might (or might not, if we’re being realistic) have noticed, the hardworking staff has been largely AWOL from the Global Worldwide Headquarters in recent months. We can explain. Certain persons highly positioned in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Ask Doctor Ads, cryptocurrencies, Duck and Cower, Gillette Venus, John Fetterman, MAGAts, Mehmet Oz, Spike Lee
Leave a comment
Dead Blogging ‘Regarding America’ at the Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to wander around Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art and say, it was swell. The major exhibit there right now is Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection (through July … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the Divine, Boston Globe, Braque Picasso (1978), Georgia O'Keefe, James Monroe Whitfield, Murray Whyte, Past Is Prologue: History in Contemporary Art, Phillips Academy, Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Sarah G. Austin, Sarah G. Austin Foundation, Walt Whitman
Leave a comment
How ‘King Tut’ Exhibits Have Evolved Over the Past Fifty Years
About a week and a half ago, the Boston Sunday Globe featured this full-page ad in the Arts section. The BeyondKingTut website touts the Boston opening this way. WORLD PREMIERE Opens on July 8th at SoWa Power Station in Boston … Continue reading
The Difference Between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic
Here’s Novak Djokovic after his grueling five-set comeback victory over Jannick Sinner in their Wimbledon men’s singles quarterfinal on Tuesday. And here’s Rafael Nadal after his grueling five-set comeback victory over Taylor Fritz in Wimbledon men’s single quarterfinal yesterday. Draw your … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Jannick Sinner, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Taylor Fritz, Wimbledon
Leave a comment
I Was So Wrong About Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway System
I did seven years in Ohio from the late ’60s to the mid-’70s, as I’ve detailed elsewhere. Ever since then I’ve believed three things I was told about the Cincinnati Subway System That Never Was. 1) It was built in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew J. Hawkins, Canandaigua Winery, Cincinnati Abandoned Subway, Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway: The Complete History, Forbidden Explorer, Jake Mecklenborg, Metro Moves, Murray Seasongood, Prince of the Queen City, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, The Proper People, The Verge
Leave a comment
Why Rafa Is So Special As a Tennis Player – and a Person
Yesterday, as you no doubt already know, the great Rafael Nadal won his 14th French Open men’s singles title and his 22nd Grand Slam tournament title by defeating Norway’s Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0. Nutshell video. Afterward, Rafa detailed some … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Ava Wallace, Casper Ruud, French Open, Liz Clarke, Rafael Nadal, Washington Post
Leave a comment
Campaign Outsider 