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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

Jake Bugg

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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Sleaford Mods

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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The Wave Pictures

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

He was especially admired by Seurat and Gauguin, and also Cézanne, and later, Matisse and Picasso as well as the perennially underestimated American Maurice Prendergast. In their works and that of many others, you’ll find different combinations of Puvis’s carefully … Continue reading →

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“The Artist’s Way”

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

With “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul… She will tell you that she has good boundaries. But like many successful women, she brushes off her achievements, attributing her unlooked-for wins to luck. “If … Continue reading →

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Fretwork

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

I’ve been introduced by a friend to two good bands. One is the Wave Pictures from Wymeswold, England near Loughborough in Leicestershire. For persons unfamiliar with Anglo-Celtic phonetic toponymy, Wymeswold is pronounced Maudlin, Loughborough is pronounced Chumley, and Leicestershire is pronounced Leicestershire. … Continue reading →

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A Copy Editor’s Quibbles

Posted on February 4, 2019 by JMN

nyti.ms/2DOiA9C And there are the words Dreyer currently dislikes most, even more than he dislikes “munch” and “nosh” and other distasteful eating-adjacent terms. Sitting recently in his book-crammed office at Penguin Random House, where he is vice president, executive managing … Continue reading →

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Tono Romo, Ex-Quarterback

Posted on February 4, 2019 by JMN

nyti.ms/2UwA4ws “I just want to leave you with something I’ve learned in this process,” he said, referring to his quarterbacking years. “I feel like we all have two battles or two enemies going on. One with the man across from … Continue reading →

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The Staff of Life. And Caviar.

Posted on February 2, 2019 by JMN

[Photo by JMN — Reus, Catalonia] You need to start with good white toast; Pepperidge Farm “Very Thin” is our preferred. It isn’t sweet like so many shelf-stabilized loaves, and it has excellent structure to stand up to the ingredients … Continue reading →

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I Can Just Hear Those Hands

Posted on February 2, 2019 by JMN

“[***’s] just out making noise, ringing his hands and pouting in a corner,” Aguilar said Friday. (Sarah Ferris, Heather Caygle, “Congress tunes out ***’s border wall threats,” Politico, 2-1-19) (c) 2019 JMN.

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