Sort of gives a new meaning to “Dream House,” doesn’t it? Rizk, of course.

Rizk again.  Summer’s End.

Ron Rizk Hot Pursuit 1995, 24″ x 36″ A masterful still life painting by the Rizk featuring two windup cars racing through a home-built tabletop race course. Rizk is Professor of Painting and Chair of Studio Arts at USC and is known for his whimsical impressions. Look at the detail below and remember: this isn’t a […]

“Jesus lived as a common man among common men. He lived where they lived – fishermen, tax collectors, shepherds, street vendors – and He loved them all, outcasts of every kind, the untouchables, lepers, lunatics, Samaritans, street people and women taken in adultery. He loved kids and crowds, celebrations and solitude, miracles and quiet meals […]

Two grandsons and a one-eyed Ewok named Todd (who normally lives with Jacob and Melissa but who stayed with us when Jacob and Melissa were on their honeymoon.) Painting by Indy Beagle

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Photo by André Kertész Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates (1907 – 1998) was an African American entertainer from South Carolina who taught himself to tap dance after losing a leg at age 12 in a cotton gin accident. His uncle, Wit, made his first, crude “peg leg” after returning home from World War I and finding his nephew legless. […]

This is the view from the Khaled Nabi cemetery in Iran. Photo by Alireza Javaheri.

Cognoscenti Dave “Skunkmeat” Lofranco brings this to our attention of an example of the difference between the Objective Reality we all share and the Perceptual Reality in which each of us lives in a private world, alone. Communication happens in that limited space where your Perceptual Reality overlaps with mine.  Conversely, there are things in […]

Hey, this is new, even for me. I was able to walk into a picture inside another picture. Don’t I at least a get a slow clap or something? Henri Cartier Bresson was another French poet-photographer alongside Robert Doisneau. I love exploring their stuff.

Six boys and a little girl. It would blow your mind if I told you who she grew up to become. It’s 1951. The photographer is Alfred Eisenstaedt. The drum major is from the University of Michigan. That’s all the clues you get.

This woman is watching a marathon in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1959. The photographer is 20 year-old Antanas Sutkus. Weirdly, the dude that ran past me isn’t in the marathon, he’s just trying to catch his dog. “Burbo! Come, Burbo! Burbo!”

These guys are in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s high-heeled boot. The year is 1958. They were having a discussion about the best way to cook San Remo shrimp. I told them that any fool can cook shrimp, but it takes a real Superuomo to cook eggplant, because eggplant is worthy food. Now they’re trying to decide […]

Venice, Italy, 1960. No hat necessary because the dude behind me is wearing a hat cool enough for all of us. Photo by Gianni Berengo Gardin. I call him Johnny. The photographer, I mean, not the hat dude.

If they played basketball in London in 1952, I can promise you this dude would NOT be directing traffic. Another cool photo by my boy, Robert Frank. The cognoscenti of Wizard Academy’s Magical Worlds Communications Workshop know exactly who he is.

I’m keeping my distance. These wild horses are in Kenya. It’s 1964 and the photographer is Ulrich Mack.

1988: Afghan refugees in a chai tea house on the way to Kaudakar. Delightful people, making the best of a bad day. Photo by Josef Polleross.

Okay, I’m on my way back now. I’m currently in Butte, Montana, in a 1955 Robert Frank photo. You really gotta love the Frank. If you’ve been reading the comments under the photos, you know I left you dangling a bit regarding that hobo-ish song I mentioned following the photo of the train. So here’s the song. Closure feels good, doesn’t it?

Yep, still wandering around Paris with Robert Doisneau. These two little girls are making funny faces at me. Wearing the appropriate hat is the key to time travel. But you already knew that, right? Cognoscenti John Davis mentioned time-travel hats once in an email. I watched as the wizard put John’s email into the random quotes database here at MondayMorningMemo.com: “If I get […]

If I were wearing a cowboy hat, this would be a Johnny Cash song. But this hat makes it a Roger Miller song about a hobo. Remember Roger Miller? (This hat also works for that hobo-ish song about Mister Bojangles.) Photo by Rene Zuber.

I promised Princess Pennie I would so some wedding research during my journey. She and her team facilitate 1,000 weddings a year at Wizard Academy’s Chapel Dulcinea, so weddings are of interest to her. I’m in Paris, of course. The photographer is Robert Doisneau, known for his poetic approach to photography in the 1930s.

Augusta, Georgia, 1937. The photographer is Margaret Bourke-White.

You know how they always break a bottle of champagne across the bow of a ship when they launch it? This ship is the frigate, Jean Bart. The photographer is Carole Bellaiche.

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Hunter S. Thompson – “The Edge” by Black Ink Artz

Make no mistake, laughter is contagious. And this video will prove it. (With more than 90,000,000 views, maybe you’ve already seen it.) Candace Payne is an inspiration to Worthless Bastards worldwide.

Adam Phillips has been called “the Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis,” and in his remarkable new book, Unforbidden Pleasures, he writes about agency and desire in an utterly transformative way. Ileene Smith: Am I correct in thinking that unforbidden pleasures are often interior, and that your point is that… they are low-hanging fruit, there for the […]

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You can get in for a lot less than the wizard and me if you want. We got in at the top simply because no one else had done it. You know the wizard’s ego. Here’s the link to the page if you’re interested.

Walk the streets of 1913 Berlin with Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In November, 2006, this painting fetched $38 million at Christie’s.

Rod Pullman saw this mash-up and thought it was cool.  He was right! – Indy Submission to Mirth should be sent to Indy@WizardOfAds.com

Since I hang out with the wizard pretty much 24/7, I know his hopes and fears and dreams and goals. His hope is for you to have opportunity to waste time with wonderful people regularly. (It’s very therapeutic.) His dream is for you to start a Worthless Bastards chapter in your city. His goal is […]

4 minutes of delight and decompression with no point a’la Rube Goldberg. Worthless Bastards material. Brad Submissions to Frank Sent This should be sent to Indy@WizardOfAds.com

The woman and her daughter at the bottom left are Dolores and Tina. They’re on the way to the train station to pick up Tina’s Dad. Edouard Léon Cortès was born in 1882 in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris. A French post-impressionist of French and Spanish ancestry, he is known as “Le Poete Parisien de la Peinture” or “the Parisian Poet […]

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There are currently 46 Wizard of Ads partner offices, each one carefully recruited and trained by the wizard during the past 16 years. The newest and youngest Wizard of Ads recruits are always wildly talented. (Otherwise, they would not have been recruited.) The senior partners call them “the cubs” and everyone is extremely proud of them. Andrew […]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Brian S. wrote: Hey Daniel, Just watched the tower update. I’m kind of surprised you guys are moving toward the traditional education system of learning tracts. What makes you guys so awesome is the cross-disciplinary approach! Wise-ards were polymaths. Don’t mean to rant. Just a little surprised you […]

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The Road Not Taken” plays a unique role — not simply in American literature, but in American culture — and in world culture as well. Its signature phrases have become so ubiquitous, so much a part of everything from coffee mugs to refrigerator magnets to graduation speeches, that it’s almost possible to forget the poem […]