Late yesterday afternoon, the Sassistas! watched the unfolding and heartbreaking news of the monster tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma. At the time of this posting, at least 51 people are dead, including 20 children.
Please share any information you have about what each of us can do to help.
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Today the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be dedicated in Dallas, Texas. Click here for a link to the library/museum's website.
The Sassistas! recently learned that the 43rd President has taken up painting in his spare time and are wondering if any of his paintings will be displayed in his new library/museum. Above are two of his paintings (no, they aren't water colors, though he may have thought so), and below is the former President proudly standing next to more of his paintings.
We remember reading that the former President had a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office because of how much he admired him. Bush may have taken up painting after leaving office because Churchill did. Below is one of Churchill's paintings. We aren't art critics (though Flannista has a large art collection), but think that Bush might continue to look to Churchill for inspiration. What do you think?
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Yesterday afternoon, every single proposal on gun control failed in the United States Senate. Even the plan to expand background checks to all buyers, which had overwhelming public support in polls, collapsed under pressure from the gun-rights lobby.
Standing in the Rose Garden with parents of Sandy Hook children who lost their lives and former Rep. Gabby Giffords, President Obama made no attempt to hide his outrage at the Republican-led filibuster that billed the bill "even as those families looked on from the Senate gallery." Click here to watch his remarks.
Response from conservatives to the President's remarks has been equally filled with outrage. Columnists such as Andrew Breitbart, in an editorial entitled, "Obama Throws Tantrum Over Gun Control Defeat," wrote:
Rarely have Americans ever seen a president attack his opponents so viciously, expressing and evoking such visceral emotions--especially at a time of mourning. President Obama's tirade contrasted with his reserved, measured response to the Boston Marathon bombings, in which he urged Americans to speak and act with restraint. If this has been, as he claimed, "a pretty shameful day in Washington," the president's tantrum was the most shameful moment of all.
What is more outrageous? Gun control failure or a publicly disappointed President?
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"Oh, my God ... Boston. I am heartsick. Why? Why this? Why now?
Praying ... praying ... don't know what else to do."
-- PEACEsista, yesterday afternoon
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Two weeks ago, visitors to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) were treated to a view of the Oscar-winning actress for a piece titled The Maybe. The live art piece -- a collaboration with friend Cornelia Parker -- debuted at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park in 1995. Swinton reprised The Maybe on March 23, remaining in a glass box for some six-and-a-half hours.
The installation will be an occasional feature at MoMA in the coming weeks, a museum spokeswoman said, but MOMA is not saying in advance which days The Maybe will be on show. "An integral part of The Maybe's incarnation at MoMA in 2013," said MOMA in a statement, "is that there is no published schedule for its appearance, no artist's statement released, no museum statement beyond this brief context, no public profile or image issued. Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real-shared-time: now we see it, now we don't."
As you know, the Sassistas! have been looking for ways to bring our own art to the headlines, and have created a brilliant piece of live art to accompany The Maybe. We plan to travel to New York City with our own collapsible glass box, mattress, pillow, linen, Maker's Mark and spectacles and take a nap. We're calling it The Vacation.
What about you?
What piece of live art would you create and what would you call it?
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AS OF 7:02 A.M. TODAY, SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
IT'S BEEN ONE HELLUVA WINTER.
ARE YOU GLAD SPRING IS HERE?
WHY?
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And her dad doesn't understand why
Flannista no longer watches the news . . .
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This is the first pope chosen in the history of the sassosphere.
The Sassistas! haven't had much time to read up on Pope Francis.
We like the name he assigned to himself.
We want to know if he also does jazz hands.
What's your opinion of His Papalness?
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