Back to school. Church school, maybe? If one just looks at this as blocks of color maybe one can get past the subject? Or should one? It's a wonder that our youth develops a taste for anything but bubblegum.

The effect of the blocks of colour is something I was interested in, too, Bob. The visual versus the textual. In The Mechanical Bride McLuhan argued that the public education system hadn't a chance against the educational system that advertising constituted. Luckily for me he wasn't immediately right. I went through school in the peak years of progressive education and was taught to be inquisitive and to evaluate evidence. Marketing has been perfected since then, though, and the advertisers have got bigger. DIsney, for example, has taught generations of girls to aspire to be princesses.

Well, I had a Davy Crockett hat. But still.

Excellent work! Stay well!

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Thanks, William. You, too.

An unusual but very nice stillife, John !

Thanks, Ulrich.

The World is doomed....

Canada is doomed, anyway, Denis. There's a federal election campaign on and yesterday the leader of one of the opposition parties in the last parliament accused the Liberal government of profiteering off a student loan program on which the government loses money.

St. Barbie, pray for us!

I think this is actually St. Knock-Off Barbie, Sarah.

I kind of miss my granddaughter's sparkly pink years, even though I was uncomfortable with the non-stop princesses and Barbie stuff. There were boys galore in my family and I finally got a girl! Now, she's a 14-year-old goth cowgirl, nary a pink ruffle in sight. ;-b

That princess stuff has been bothering me for years. More power to your granddaughter.