diner(s)

(Rosebud Diner, Summer St., Davis Square, Somerville, MA)

sacramento street sentry

(Sacramento St. at Oxford, Cambridge, MA)

origami incantation circle

(SOWA Building, Harrison St., Boston, MA)

return of the land shark

(Mass. Ave., Porter Square, Cambridge, MA)

silent sentries of newtowne

(Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA)

magritte's "this is not a walk in the park"

(Boston Common, Boston, MA)

man ray denies the paparazzi

(Irving, TX)

lichtenstein's "clijster's concentration"

(a living room in Somerville, MA)

o'keeffe and sons, masons

(Irving Street, Cambridge, MA)

entertainment center descending a staircase

(the always fashionable Brookline, MA)

but is it art, part two

(Prospect St., Cambridge, MA)

but is it art, part one

(alleyway off Beacon St., Somerville, MA)

“Tours of a Baguette with a Bag of Minotaurs”

I’m surprised, I quite find,
That I enjoy the Surreal
I can’t say, in a way,
What’s its precise appeal

The mundane I refrain
From encountering too much
Its veneer, I do fear,
Sometimes serves as a crutch

Some Dalis, if you please,
May seem willfully absurd
And Beckett could wreck it
With an ill-chosen word

But they show, don’t you know,
The subconscious’ upswell
Not reined in, contained in
The boxes of Cornell

They may stun, but they’re fun
Always good for a few laughs
With wordplays and Man Ray’s
Solarized photographs

It’s not real, some would squeal
And while Realism’s a feat
It reflects, but can’t vex
Like the views of Magritte

cubismo y cerveza

(Christopher's Restaurant, Mass. Ave. at Porter Square, Cambridge, MA)

shakira, la impresionista

(a television somewhere in Brookline, MA)

The Adventures of Pancakes Dunst: No. 21

This Week Only: All Nouns Half Off!

Everyone knows that billionaire businessman Anson Jarry prefers to keep his public comments concise. But no one predicted that in his silence he sought to seize the world’s wealth! With the publication of his glitzy autobiography, An Economy of Phrasing, Jarry unveils his scheme of complicated contracts that make him the owner of most of the world’s common words. Citizens across the globe try to protest, but they can’t afford the outcry. “Hey, no fair!” complain the world’s leaders, instantly incurring bills for their countries’ GNPs. Even at his low, low introductory prices, no one want to argue just to see Jarry profit. Pancakes Dunst resolves to button her lip, but she still has a thing or two to say about this stranglehold on free expression. Mime and interpretive dance have never been so compelling!