#John O'Connor

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Ludgate, Evening, 1887

John O'Connor

#art #painting #art history #architecture #cityscape #John O'Connor #1880s #irish art #favorite

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John O'Connor (Irish, 1830-1889), Ludgate, Evening, 1887. Oil on canvas, 59 x 41½ in.

#john o'connor #irish art #london #ludgate #street scene #cityscape #st paul's cathedral #st. paul's cathedral

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN O’CONNOR

We return to engravings by the English wood engraver John O’Connor (1913-2004) published in People & Places, printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Herefordshire, England in an edition of 375 copies. John O’Connor’s career spanned over six decades, beginning with engravings for an edition of Joan Rutter's poems Here's Flowers in 1936. 

The wood engravings in People & Places are a compilation of engravings he created to illustrate a column in Richard Ingrams’s Oldie magazine. O'Connor produced a wood-engraving every month for the magazine from 1992 to 2001, just three years before his death. Even at the end of his career, O’Connor maintained his creative energy despite using a wheelchair and suffering from increasing deafness. In his obituary, The Guardian noted that O’Connor’s work,

is filled with a profound - almost romantic - love of the natural world. He had a pastoral vision, albeit one imbued with melancholy, at the passing of time and a changing world.

He saw his favourite painting places in Suffolk - the ponds, willows, briars and honeysuckle - disappear beneath the bulldozer and combine harvester, and eventually moved with his wife to the emptier spaces of southwest Scotland.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #John O'Connor #People & Places #Whittington Press #John and Rosalind Randle #Richard Ingrams #The Oldie #letterpress printing #fine press books

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'Cockle Boats' (1990) by British artist John O'Connor (1913-2004)

#John O'Connor #woodblock art

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A sculpture titled 'ANGEL (life size Contemporary Guardian Garden statue)' by sculptor John O'Connor. In a medium of Mixed Media Resin bronze finish and in an edition of 1/5.

#artist #sculpture #sculptor #art #fineart #John O'Connor #bronze resin #limited edition

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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

By John O’Connor.

#The Secret History of Bigfoot #John O’Connor #John O'Connor #books #book covers

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Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 8/1/2023

Fifth Place: Asa Hutchinson

Despite being the only Republican running for President who I have any respect for, people need to face a rather important fact: Asa Hutchinson is not going to be President. Since the start of the 2024 race, it has been obvious that if Donald Trump entered he was going to be the nomination--and Trump has entered. This was demonstrated perfectly when Hutchinson was on CNN last night and we saw this graphic:

He couldn't even break half of one percent in any of the eight groups listed--seriously think about that.

Fourth Place: Laura Ingraham

Can we just admit that Fox News is a neo-Nazi network at this point? For fuck sake, last night brought us yet another example of a host pushing the horribly racist Great Replacement theory, with Ingraham saying:

Now, this is what Democrats have always wanted though, isn't it? An open border that would help usher in a new America. And this is what we're getting: Millions upon millions of illegals who fanned out across America with their free cell phones and dubious intentions.

I don't even know what to say about this outside of--well, this is the same thing Fox has been doing for years, and it seems like barley anybody, including the people whose job it is to monitor the right for things like this, barley notice it anymore. Media Matters barley took notice and from the looks of it no other media watchdog even mentioned it, it takes something especially offensive--like Greg's recent comments on the Holocaust--to even cause people to notice that Fox is engaging in the same rhetoric that actual fascists do.

Third Place: Steve Benen

MSNBC is easily the best out of the three cable news networks, but even they sometimes fall into the trap of not framing the story correctly. For example, Steve Benen's article on the website ran the headline "Dems slam Justice Alito’s latest claim as ‘stunningly wrong.’" However, this headline should make it a point to note that it's not merely the Democrats "slamming" Alito for saying Congress has no authority to regulate the Supreme Court, but it is them pointing out that what he said was, in fact, incorrect. This would be like claiming a teacher "slammed" a student who incorrectly answered a question on a test--except the student was also one of the nine most powerful people in the country.

Second Place: Michelle Goldberg

Her column "The Radicalization of the Young Right" falls into the typical liberal trap of having nostalgia for the terrible conservatives of the past because maybe they weren't as bad as those on the right today. The article sees her giving the benefit of the doubt to Nate Hochman, the DeSantis campaign staffer who was fired for putting fascist symbols into campaign ads, by writing:

Though the video’s imagery is clearly fascist — the sonnenrad, or sunwheel, is flanked by two rows of marching soldiers — Hochman has said that he didn’t know what the symbol meant. Given that he is Jewish, I’m inclined to believe that rather than being a covert Nazi, Hochman is simply a callow young man immersed in a milieu in which fascist idioms are so commonplace they can be picked up inadvertently. 

And honestly, who here hasn't accidentally put a fascist symbol into a video? (Or made their crossword puzzle look like a fascist symbol on the first day of a Jewish holiday?)

As Hochman clearly recognized, these days, young reactionaries find their inspiration not in the adolescent superman fantasies of Ayn Rand but in the nihilistic Joker energy of 4chan.

And how exactly are those two things different? Ayn Rand wrote stories about how everything was bad in mainstream society and those on the sidelines need to take over and get rid of all of those who disagree, and that's the motto of the modern right-wing. Of course, Ayn Rand was never a source of inspiration for reactionaries, who were primarily conservative, because Rand was not one--William Buckley, the person behind the post-World War Two conservative movement, even hated Ayn Rand and pushed her out of his new right.

Winner: John O'Connor

It's not everyday you see somebody attempt to defend Richard Nixon, but O'Connor did just that in his Townhall column "How Watergate Journalism Sowed the Seeds of Today’s Toxic Division." Even ignoring the silliness of the claim that Bob Woodward, a registered Republican, would do something like take down a sitting Republican President, and that The Washington Post would use Watergate as nothing more than an attempt to take down Nixon but wouldn't release most of the information on it until after the 1972 Presidential Election (George McGovern changing running mates was covered far more than Watergate during 1972) is nonsensical, but O'Connor is here to tell us what really happened:

But what was so patently false about the Washington Post Watergate journalism?  From the first days of the burglary arrests of June 17, 1972, the Post knew facts strongly showing that this had not been a White House campaign operation but, rather, was a small part of a widespread, long-lasting CIA program of surveilling prostitutes and their Johns.  Inveigling seeming White House approval from lower aides, the CIA hoped to gain a get out-of-jail-free card if later exposed.

And the fact that the organization which did this was called the Committee to Re-Elect the President is--what, a really bad coincidence? For those curious, O'Connor shows no evidence for this claim--instead he just spends the rest of the column insulting Mark Felt and modern journalism.

John O'Connor, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

#asa hutchinson #laura ingraham #steve benen #michelle goldberg #john o'connor

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The Mummy (1999)

dir. stephen sommers

#the mummy #the mummy 1999 #costume drama #brendan fraser #rachel weisz #arnold vosloo #john hannah #oded fehr #kevin j. o'connor

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Conservatives' sex trafficking obsession is a confession.

#sinead o'connor #catholic church #pope john paul ii

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#wooing THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2002)

#the importance of being earnest #colin firth #jack worthing #john worthing #frances o'connor #gwendolen fairfax #oscar wilde #userrobin #usersugar #usergiles #userlindir #cinemapix #userbbelcher #chewieblog #userfilm #filmedit #filmgifs #dailyflicks #my*gifs

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october 3, 1992

Sinéad O'Connor, famous for her hit song "Nothing Compares 2 U," goes way off script during her Saturday Night Live appearance, declaring "Fight the real enemy" and tearing up a picture of the Pope.

#sinead o'connor #pope john paul ii #snl #saturday night live #almanaccomercury

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John Kennedy O'Connor

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1964   

Ethnicity: White - British

Occupation: Journalist, presenter, commentator, writer

#John Kennedy O'Connor #John Kennedy O Connor #lgbt #lgbt people #mlm #male #gay #1964 #white #british #journalist #presenter #commentator #writer #eurovision

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Monday Motivation Owl

This stately wood-engraved Barn Owl is maintaining its vigilant watch over the Hunting Tower on the Derbyshire Dales historic Chatsworth Estate to keep it free of vermin despite being mobbed by smaller birds. The tower was designed by Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson and was built in 1582 for Bess of Hardwick. It stands on an escarpment 400 feet above Chatsworth House, on the edge of Stand Wood, and was used as a summer house for the ladies of the estate to observe the hunting activities in the parkland below. Today it has been restored and can be rented as a holiday cottage for vacationers where the barn owls stand watch nightly to keep pesky critters at bay.

This image is by English wood engraver John O’Connor (1913-2004) and appears in a retrospective of O’Connor’s work, People & Places, printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Herefordshire, England in an edition of 375 copies.

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#MondayMotivationOwl #owls #Barn Owls #wood engravings #wood engravers #John O'Connor #People & Places #Chatsworth House #Hunting Tower #Chatsworth Estate #Derbyshire Dales #Stand Wood #Robert Smythson #Bess of Hardwick #Whittington Press #John and Rosalind Randle #birds #birbs!

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John O'Connor (British, 1913-2004)

Storm Moon and Barley

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A sculpture titled 'BEAUTIFUL CREATURE (Standing Fragmented sculptures)' by sculptor John O'Connor. In a medium of Mixed media resin bronze finish and in an edition of 1/3.

#artist #sculpture #sculptor #art #fineart #John O'Connor #bronze resin #limited edition

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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce. Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales. Cover art by John Holmes.

The Rivals of Dracula: A Century of Vampire Fiction. Cover art by John Holmes.

Night of the Warlock, with cover art by Bruce Pennington.

The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

The Book of the Dead by John Tigges. Cover art by Alexander Valko.

Fiend by Guy N. Smith. Cover art by Les Edwards.

Slob. cover art by David O'Connor

Best New Horror 4. Cover art by Tony Greco

#cover books #cover #art #horror #terror #horror aesthetic #paintings #artworks #artwork #illustration #John Holmes #Bruce Pennington #Alexander Valko #Les Edwards #David O'Connor #Tony Greco #cover art #details #detail #literature #cover book #books #arts