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Some selected non-current comments on current events:

"No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence." — Margaret Mead, Redbook (1972)

"I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are – like a tendency toward fat knees – probably formed in utero, or, at the very least, in cribbo. — Peg Bracken, I Didn't Come Here To Argue (1969)

"A celebrity is one who works all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized. – Jane Powell (1992)

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy. Boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell, Shooting An Elephant (1950).

"Spring glides gradually into the farmer's consciousness, but on us city people it bursts with all the relish of a sudden surprise, compensating for much of what we lose." — Mrs. William Starr Dana, According to Season (1894)

First, I want to say "thank you" to the many artists and other visitors who have been here, left thoughtful comments, engaged with me on topics of interest, and contributed to conversations that especially to me are what make being here at dA valuable.

Second, I want to let everyone known that #fetishvsbullying is now under guidance of a new site manager, and those of you inclined to visit there (as I hope you will) will notice page reorg, new graphics, a heightened focus on the group's mission, and a (thankfully) much more restrictive image posting policy. I've got an essay or two posted there, as well.

My gallery at BandMachArt is about to reach the 1000 pageview threshold, which for most of you may seem like "so what?" but for me is a nice point to reach. I've been back there uploading new images and stories, too, so little by little the gallery reflects my active artistic side. Feel free to visit there, too, but again be forewarned: while my writing is (I'd like to think) fairly professional, my drawings are merely (I am forced to conclude) merely those of a rank amateur; and, too, that gallery is a rather transgressive one, and thus not for everyone.

The winter wasn't any too good to me: a short but stark list of physical maladies that kept me rather inactive at just the times when finding a way to be active keeps on from winter depressions. I've been working through these setbacks (comes from getting older, for sure), and now that spring has begun to insist on being present, perhaps my body will become ashamed of itself and launch into an aggressive recovery.

Here are the dA galleries I encountered for the first time, over the last two months. Check 'em out, and enjoy 'em:

1RopeArtist / adams1973 / Agency-Publishing / Akihiro94 / AliceKingsnorth / Artikano / ArukemikkuNightmare / brancorvo / Chaosdiva / creative26 / CrimeQueen2001 / CrinisLover / danohawk / deanderic / demontroll / djcryssiec / DrunkenFangschrecke (this month's winner of the Best Multilingual Multiconnotational Award) / DualEdgedSword / Dxmian / ee-coutts / Feng-Yue / Ferres / FireDragonEntei488 / Freshdawn / gamera1985 (this month's winner of the Worst Movie Reference award) / gooloo0-o (this month's winner of the Most Selfish and Least User Friendly Gallery Name award) / GraphicDistress / IanStruckhoff / impish777 / Iri-Neko / jackmackhack / jazzrs / Jeffach / Jitan777 / Kamaro82 / Karanak / Kooieca / Kryptik0 / lepersabstain (this month's winner of the Painfully Clever Name award) / L0rd-Black / lolitalovers (group) / LordXorph / lying-star / mashaMklaut / masterlurker (this month's winner of the I Wish I'd Thought Of That Name award) / Mickytroisd / mojoexcalibur2000 (this month's winner of the Pointed Reference award) / NatsukiDoll / Nuclearo / Oldojmo / Patrij / Rastifan / Reatil / SamuelKahn / Scootie-chan / Sgratt / Shnoogums5060 (this month's winner of the It's Not Really Yiddish award) / SilentKnob / sinisterbrain / slamm345 / Souljah01 / SquirrelyMagazine / stinky3dfeets (this month's winner of the I Don't Care What You Think About My Name award) / TabathaMedellin / ThatGuyWithStuff / tourbillon-da / Trahtenberg / vanexk13 / Voyant7 / Vridlaix / Wandermaske / Whitecloth / Wolfwhite-x / Wolverine122 / x-ret / Yukaritatsu / Zaranack.

Thanks again, everyone, for visiting this site.
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There's certainly a lot of wisdom in "punk philosophy". lol.