Well, yes, in fact some of the most "innovative" advances in modern Western art were appropriated from both African and East Asian art.

You might enjoy reading Women in Frames by Patricia Simons.

Could you elaborate on this? How exactly did the camera erode artist imagination?

Yeah, back at you.

Kern County is pretty rural compared to LA, though.

I think a gun would be a band aid and you might want to try getting at the root of your fears about safety. I grew up in Los Angeles and I feel like it's a pretty safe place, as big cities go, but I can see how being new would make someone feel very insecure about safety.

How big of you to be so accepting. It must be a great comfort to your friends.

Unfortunately, situations that may bring on fear or panic can be much more ambiguous and passivity can be assumed due to fear of escalating the situation to more clear cut threat. I think this is especially true of potentially sexual encounters. And I think this is sometimes difficult to imagine if you have never…

The connection between beer/tacos and abortion is eating and drinking tacos and beer makes you look like you have a food-baby. Science.

Dammit Rocket, behave yourself!

Use little bits of worbla to attach D-rings in the underside of the worbla and tie the pieces together to attach the two pieces and to get in and out.

But what about all those disgusting Pinterest recipes that call for it to make technicolor no bake pre-masticated red velvet atrocities dipped in melted discs of stale chemicals labeled white chocolate you buy at michael's? What do they call those? Cake balls? Truffles?

I'm sorry, but being friends with a racist, to the degree described here especially, is a tacit approval of that racism. So, you need to call that shit out and/or break things off.

I feel like kids are not dumb and they understand they haven't won even if they get a stupid participation trophy.

I think they live in the next town over. Tontitown.

I have no love for the Duggars and find their views abhorrent and dangerous, but if they are taking state aid for the family, that is new.

I mean, there must be a really good reason we don't remember stuff before we're like, 3 or 4 years old, right?

My parents both ended up pretty capable, but they were just so not prepared to have me when they did. I slept in a blanket lined drawer pulled out of a bureau for a while as an infant. I think that neither of my parents had any clue about babies. It was looooong before the internet was telling you that you're a bad…

And my point is that those politicians are using a rhetoric they don't understand. These concepts are somewhat empty because Americans are raised believing they are somehow essential and unyielding American values, when in fact they would be entirely unrecognizable to people if they understood them in context. The…

Yes, and my disagreement is not that the meaning has evolved, it's with what I feel like is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance in invoking some mythologized concept as though that myth in itself gives it weight enough to be important without really looking critically at that history. For you to say "America was…