May
23
2020
ABOVE: Enjoy your weekend.
480 posts categorized "ART"
May
17
2020
ABOVE: He remains my favorite visual trickster.
May
15
2020
ABOVE: When an Instagram pic is clearly not a selfie.
BELOW: Keep reading for a porn actor's sad news, a turncoat doctor, Biden's best campaign promise and more ...
May
06
2020
ABOVE: Oh, God, this amazing Jamel Shabazz photograph!
May
03
2020
With people sending me Frank Bruni's (ugh) negative outlook on how COVID-19 will end — spoiler alert: not well — this Probably Tomfoolery take is infinitely more positive.
Not sure I have this much optimism left in me.
But. Here goes ...
Apr
29
2020
The inscription is as touching as the image. (Image via College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving)
Ryan White, the kid who in the '80s was the face of AIDS among the non-gay set — and yet who was hassled and rejected because of his diagnosis — inspired a Bill Mack sculpture that was once unveiled by White's mom and Elizabeth Taylor.
Since then, it disappeared, but was discovered by College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving, a moving franchise, in one of its warehouses at the bottom of a pile of stuff.
It's wonderful that they recognized the statue's significance and rescued it.
Now, exactly 30 years to the month after White's death, as we grapple with another pandemic, it's being displayed in their HQ in Tampa. Here is a pic of the piece in place.
Its inscription:
RYAN WHITE…
HE HAD THE COURAGE
TO TELL US HIS STORY
AND GIVE US ALL
HOPE.
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