“”Unmonumental,” reinforces the mixed messages of the building itself.
A postscript looks at the architecture one year later, with delightful help
from a parody (URmonumental) by Howard Saunders.”
Month / September 2017
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AxeMan’s Bucket List
What’s with names ending in OFF? These guys deserved what they got, except maybe Markoff who never did go to trial. If you don’t recall, he succeeded, after three tries, to end his life in his cell onthe anniversary of what would have been his wedding day. And Jack Abramoff? He’s selling kosher pizza at Tov, as in Mazel, in Baltimore. And then there’s Bernie. We are waiting for his reality show, Surviving Isolation.
Slovakia says goodbye to David Duke
AxeMan follows David Duke to Slovakia, Germany and Iran. Duke attends Holocaust Deniers conference in Teheran. He sees Duke, but more to the point, he sees a very strange pair embracing. What gives, he wonders?
Later, Duke is thrown out of Slovakia. . He was not welcome. What a shame. Those Jews, always pushing. AxeMan says Kaddish for the fallen hero.
AxeMan and Sisyphus: Dead Press Walking
On February 27, 2oo9, the Rocky Mountain News closed its doors. The small market paper had won numerous prestigious publishing awards. It was the beginning of the end, and a brand new beginning as the publishing industry, lemming-like, plunged into the World of Tablets.
AxeMan hones his skills
AxeMan’s skills have gone a bit rusty, but he is anxious to get back in a groove. He doesn’t want to rest on his laurals. He tried writing fiction for a number of years, was even published under a pseudonym, but he felt that telling the truth would better serve him. So, back to making ‘art’ which is a very risky business these days. He has read 
that the National Endowment for the Arts has been tracking numbers of artists in the workforce (including self-employed). There are roughly 2.1 million fine artists, illustrators, photographers and animators in the workforce as of their 2011 study. He wonders, why bother?
Slouching Toward Twitterland
AxeMan grumbles about having to pay to read the NY Times on line, whilst he also trudges to the local newsstand to buy the pulp version. There are other redundant activities, some of which he is hoping to purge. But this Twitter thing; this could be a 
big mistake.
Why would he go there? Hypocrite? Pragmatist, more likely. He hates the whole idea (he has of late been wishing that everyone would shut the hell up), but an editor at a publishing house specializing in graphic novels and art books told him he wouldn’t have a problem getting published if he had 5,000 followers on Twitter. He didn’t say he would publish it, butsomebody would. Of course, he could try to self-publish again as he did in 2010 (with funding from Kickstarter – AxeMan Who Will be70 in the Year 2010), but where would that get him? Two hundred books in hand, half of those in remainders. So, only 5,000 followers. Oh, and you have to make a blog, he said. Post at least three times a week, and tweet like crazy. Anything and everything that comes into your axe-head, share it. That’s how it’s done. So if you see this, the AxeMan has gone off the deep end. Stay tuned.
