I wrote some confessions about being a chronic people-pleaser. It was a lot of fun to write this honestly! There were moments I thought "PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT THAT" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/confession...
A lot of you are waiting anxiously for particular episodes. Rest assured, all Vandal Live events are still forthcoming. Here is a very tentative order for forthcoming episodes. But much depends on how much mixing and editing labor is required, so subject to change.
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.
We honor her memory and oppose the war.
On the unpleasantness of being very, very pleasant
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
Rainstorm Over the Sea
-John Constable
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
"...we might mention an eccentric teacher or an idiosyncratic assignment, but "the American dream" and "the green light" and "the three witches" and "the balcony scene" pass between us as a kind of lingua franca..."
The iris corner awakens
Matt Seybold
you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant
