the other day, in starbucks, i was astonished and thrilled to hear the clash’s “clampdown” piped in over the loudspeaker. i wonder if there are any embedded sandinista baristas who snuck that one in in response to THE MAN clamping down on photography of the purported “copyrighted environment”.

michael barrish, of oblivio.com, recalls this story regarding picasso:

On a train Picasso met a man who announced with some disgust that Picasso’s paintings didn’t look anything like real people. Picasso asked the man to show him something that did look like a real person, and the man pulled out a photograph of his wife. Picasso studied the photograph for a moment and said, “She’s awfully small, isn’t she?”