Give Me a "D"

Via Julie

The rules of this game:

Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter.

Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why.

Pass out letters to those who want to play along.

The letter that Julie gave me was "D."

1. Diebenkorn. My favorite artist, active from the mid-1940's to the early 1990's. His work can be divided into the following periods: early abstract expressionism (works he did immediately after the war, including the San Francisco, Sausalito, Albequerque, and Urbana paintings), fully developed abstract experssionism (the Berkeley paintings), the Bay Area Figurative paintings, the Ocean Park series, and then the Late Works.

2. Daughter. She who is in the other room giving her stuffed zebra a ride in her baby doll carriage, while barking her head off.

3. Dog. As in, who needs one when one's daughter is so good at barking?

4. Dante. What more needs to be said about Dante, other than read him over and over and over again, preferably in Italian.

5. Duce, il. "When I look into your eyes, I see two perfect reflections of myself..." You better salute me when call me a Fascist, you hear?

6. Drum. Boom. Boom. Boom. I miss playing in a percussion ensemble.

7. Duck. The best of all birds to eat, from the liver to the feet. I like duck a l'orange, duck confit, roast duck, duck foie gras, Peking Duck, stuffed duck, duck soup, duck, duck, duck, duck, GOOSE!

8. Dromedary. When I told a friend that we had seen camels mating at the zoo he asked "one hump or two?" Humbly report, sir, it was a dromedary.

9. Demented. Once when I was about six, a Sacramento city councilman called me "demented." It was the first time I could (accurately, by the way), use the line, "ah, Mr. M----y, I may be demented, but you are drunk. In the morning, you will be hungover."

10. Drawing. One of the most important and neglected skills in the modern world. I am firmly convinced that, while not everyone can learn to paint, everyone can learn to draw. Art that is not grounded in drawing only rarely works, and that is always in spite of the artist's lack of ability in drawing, not because of it.