Still immersed in studying for my modern art history final. Dwelling on questions and issues such as:

1) differences between minimalist and post-minimalist art
2) factors in minimalism that lead to conceptual art
3) characteristics of postmodern art
4) explaining Jean Baudrillard's theory of "Simulacra and Simulations" and how it applies to postmodern art
5) the wider significance of Christo's art
6) the wider signficance of Philip Guston's later work
7) the changing paradigm of beauty in modern art, especially the work of body/image artists of the 1990's.

I'ved been busy studying for my modern art history final on Monday. I love taking classes, but the tests I could do without.

I've had such a busy week too, with events every night until Wednesday. On Thursday I felt happy just to have a free night with nothing to do, that I ended up going to bed early.

I have to do some Christmas shopping tomorow, so Saturday is devoted to studying. I have a great story about sitting on the screenwriting panel at The Academy of Art College Wednesday afternoon, which I hope to write about sometime this weekend. There were even three movies presented that I thought could potentially be made into films, which was a first for me since I started doing screenwriting.

More later.

This is an interesting essay by Warren Hinckle, An Old Town win, on the San Franciso mayoral election.

Hinckle describes old town San Francisco voters as "politically centrist, big labor orientated, pragmatic, tolerant-look-the-other-way about life and sex styles". This is me exactly!

I just read FJGallager's Blog. I like this guy; his political comments are so insightful.

I hope Newsom keeps his political organization together, and they work to get supervisors who think like him elected come next November. Heck, I'll go and even volunteer to unseat some of these freaks. The GOP has been doing this kind of stuff for 20+ years with impressive results, so the Demos in the city should just copy their tactics.