But when he called on Sally Brown.
To see how she went on,
He found she'd got another 'art surfer',
Whose Christian name was John.
"O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown,
How could you serve me so,
I've met with many a breeze before,
But never such a blow."
-Thomas Hood

"Central to any artistic creativity are the working of the imagination, the play of the emotions, and the operation of reason." Key Ideas in Human Thought

• TV: February is one of the 3 sweeps months so look for some good TV. You know the kind of stuff that's missing all the other months... And speaking of what's missing, have you ever seen Sat. morning ABC TV show, Ms. Munger's Class with that talking page from an old yearbook? Well that's a real class photo of teacher Kathleen Foresman and 15 students who are now suing Disney for using the photos "for the purpose of humiliating and ridiculing...former schoolmates." (AP)


• miniQUIZ Doing commercial tie-ins is nothing new. Beatles manager Brian Epstein had 234 Beatle products bringing in royalties when he died in `67. See if you can name which of the following was not one of them: Beatle egg cups, cutlery, ladies' fancy garters with lockets, coat hangers, a Beatle bingo game. ladies briefs. toasters, wallpaper, and Beatle talcum powder. (Answer later. Question from Dark Horse, G. Giuliano.)


• Real Theaters - Reel Over. Dallas has lost 2 more indie theaters: the Casa Linda, and the Astro Drive-in (which claimed to have the largest screen in the U.S.) They, and their charm, will be missed....


• The `75 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" lost a venue at the UC Theater in Berkeley, but it still shows regularly at 50 venues with the largest celebrations in Milwaukee, Portland, Madison, Wis, West L.A., and W. Palm Beach Florida. (Newsweek) Musea has a great idea for a documentary. Do one that is a you-are-there docu. on all the world's film festivals. What film fan wouldn't want to attend all the glamour and backstage fun.. .And finally in our crystal ball dept., Paul Adair, local movie maven, says that at a recent trade show they showed the same movie on 2 screens, one film, the other video, and the video looked MUCH better. Will future film be shown on video? We will see!


• QUOTE: "I used to worry that only the avant-garde mattered, but in a century in which so much has been tried, I think the avant-garde is now the establishment".- letter to Blindman's Rainbow.


• DANCE: With hardly any film of Isadora Duncan, how do we note how she danced? Did you know that like music, there is a way to show dance on paper? A lot of people have tried but the system that works best didn't come around "Until the early '20s (when) a comprehensive, detailed and accurate system devised, by Rudolf Laban (Labanotation) . The system can describe any kind of physical activity performed by human beings...every not of the head, tilt of the shoulder, flick of the wrist, leap, kick, turn and cartwheel." (Margaret Putnam/DMN) This means that now we can do the Lindy with authority!


• miniOuiz answer: The Beatles never licensed toasters.


• ART: Paul Klee wrote during the war year of 1915, "The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract; while a world at peace produces realistic art."


• Russia is having a hard winter in more ways than one. Thieves in Moscow robbed the Church of the Intercession on the River Nerl, of 2 icons, gold and silver chains, small crosses and medallions. The church was built in 1165. Thieves have been attacking churches and smuggling the objects abroad (AP)


• And speaking of aft thieves, the FBI now has a National Stolen Aft File on the web at FBl.gov/art.htm. Any art object reported by a law enforcement agency and worth more than $2,000 can be listed


• Conceptual Art is the salon art of our day. - Art S.. Rev.


• In the trunk show dept. Thailand now has 3 painting academies for ELEPHANTS. They paint , then the paintings are sold for $300 with the proceeds going to their maintenance. We salute! (ARTnews)


• We are now in the decade of the big art show. Here are the largest in attendance: Monet, van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. But beware the admission prices are steep. Van Gogh is $20 a ticket....And speaking of art shows, Musea Columnist Weasel Boy has a retrospective of his work at the NRH GALLERY, N. Richland Hills, Tx 1-817-281-5991. We salute!


• The MUSEA website (Donna Turman, Pres.) is starting to offer more than just Musea issues. We now have original work (not seen in Musea) that includes an article by zinesters Davida Gypsy Breier an article/poem by Michael Helsem, and a number of poems by columnist Zagreus Nebula


• CHUMP OF THE MONTH this month is the Black Leadership of the U.S. In the 50's they hollered because that new devil music, rock and roll sounded too much like church gospel music. But in the 90's when advertisers use gospel choirs to sell their products not a whimper of protest. That's outrageous!


• ZINES & THINGS: "It's much harder to write a poem that makes sense than it is to write one that doesn't." - Art S. Rev


• Did you know that a novel without a dust jacket has no collectible value? And speaking of books our 2 favorite Texas bookstore names are Treasure Aisles in Denton, and Red B4 Books in Beaumont (Texas Highways


• ACROSS MY DESK DEPT. Now lets look at this stack of recent zines and more I've got on my desk. Suzanne Baumann's instant children's classic "The Mouldy Bagel", a new zine of corporate letters by Rev. Rich Macklin, a holiday collection of clipart cartoons by Stephanie Webb, the new ZINE WORLD, plus stuff from Alden Scott Grow, Davida Gypsy Breier, Joe Gallo, Fran McNillian, Sparrow, Zagreus Nebula, short story writer Zach Savich, Gregory K. H. Bryant, the new Farm Pulp,... uh tell me again that this is NOT a golden age of writers?



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