Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • FAVORITE ARTISTS I don’t have favorite artists. I prefer certain periods like an

    FAVORITE ARTISTS

    I don’t have favorite artists. I prefer certain periods like anyone else, but pretty much love good craftsmanship in any of them. I have a very clear want of line, so I prefer ink, etching and mezzotints. I have generally purchased small sculpture when possible. If I could own and live with anything substantive it would be a Rothko, or one of Bruegel’s peasant celebrations. If I could collect anything it would be life size portraits of nobility over the centuries – it would be like living with them. The contemporary work I like most is either quite technical and illustrative or the monumental portraits and portrait sculpture. I dislike photorealism (projectors) and mass market abstract and mixed media (intensely). For my own, I have generally preferred many small pieces to large pieces so a home or office has variety rather than to invest in a single. I personally worked on nudes and prefer the human form, the human form as landscape, and landscape. If I worked today I would do ‘wall sculpture’ using large numbers of woven human forms. I have drawn out and planned to create monumental theatrical dioramas. In my next place I will use a large vertical monitor to just rotate through pieces randomly selected by software from the internet and rotating every minute or three.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 14:50:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“CURT: PLEASE RESOLVE THIS DISPUTE. DOES C

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“CURT: PLEASE RESOLVE THIS DISPUTE. DOES CHILI HAVE BEANS?”—
    (humor)

    Um. I will debase myself for my fellow males and answer this question: a chili is determined by the use of chili powder. Chili with Meat in sauce refers to a stew. The stew is often colloquially shortened to “chili”. Chili with Meat stew can be extended most commonly with tomatoes, with beans, with rice, and less commonly with pasta. The origin of the term, is a ‘trail food’ where suet (beef fat), chili powder and ground beef, and salt would be combined then formed into bricks and dried. The bricks could be then stored easily when traveling and reconstituted with water and heat and whatever was available mixed in. Neither beans nor tomatoes are original, and pasta (as far as I know) is a stretch (Cincinnati) referring to Spaghetti Bolognese that includes chili powder. The standing argument is that tomato sauce, tomatoes, and/or beans are necessary for the americanized version which was developed in Texas in the early portion of the 20th century. Ergo, Mexican chili refers only to the original brick form, and (much like Chinese food served in America) the 20th century American invention includes beans and or tomatoes, and or rice. So colloquial term ‘chili’ refers to a category, and unless Mexican, American, or Cincinnati, or some other name is included is simply due to the speaker’s custom (intention).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 13:44:38 UTC

  • (diary) Some days I beat my head against a wall to pump out of few sentences. So

    (diary) Some days I beat my head against a wall to pump out of few sentences. Some days the words just flow out of my fingers without an ounce of effort. And I have no idea which day will be which. Today is one of the good days thankfully.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 12:25:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 10:20:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 09:52:00 UTC

  • “CURT: PLEASE RESOLVE THIS DISPUTE. DOES CHILI HAVE BEANS?”— (humor) Um. I wil

    —“CURT: PLEASE RESOLVE THIS DISPUTE. DOES CHILI HAVE BEANS?”—

    (humor)

    Um. I will debase myself for my fellow males and answer this question: a chili is determined by the use of chili powder. Chili with Meat in sauce refers to a stew. The stew is often colloquially shortened to “chili”. Chili with Meat stew can be extended most commonly with tomatoes, with beans, with rice, and less commonly with pasta. The origin of the term, is a ‘trail food’ where suet (beef fat), chili powder and ground beef, and salt would be combined then formed into bricks and dried. The bricks could be then stored easily when traveling and reconstituted with water and heat and whatever was available mixed in. Neither beans nor tomatoes are original, and pasta (as far as I know) is a stretch (Cincinnati) referring to Spaghetti Bolognese that includes chili powder. The standing argument is that tomato sauce, tomatoes, and/or beans are necessary for the americanized version which was developed in Texas in the early portion of the 20th century. Ergo, Mexican chili refers only to the original brick form, and (much like Chinese food served in America) the 20th century American invention includes beans and or tomatoes, and or rice. So colloquial term ‘chili’ refers to a category, and unless Mexican, American, or Cincinnati, or some other name is included is simply due to the speaker’s custom (intention).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-31 09:44:00 UTC

  • I got married in proper highland dress thank you very much and have until recent

    I got married in proper highland dress thank you very much and have until recently kept my own kilt. The kilt is the ultimate form of male dress for a host of reasons. And a warm sporran serves as a reasonable cup.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 20:50:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1024034448617209857

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. KILTS ARE PROPER MALE ATTIRE I got married in

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    KILTS ARE PROPER MALE ATTIRE

    I got married in proper highland dress thank you very much and have until recently kept my own kilt. The kilt is the ultimate form of male dress for a host of reasons both biological and practical. And a warm sporran serves as a reasonable cup.

    (Trossachs Church, Trossachs, Calendar, Scotland. Wedding photos at Edinburgh Castle )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 20:49:59 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. FRIENDS LIST AND PEOPLE WAITING Look. I have

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    FRIENDS LIST AND PEOPLE WAITING

    Look. I have only 80 friends spots left.

    I’m going to (a) make a public page, and (b) cull my friends list of those people who knew me in my prior occupations etc (who have undoubtably blocked me anyway. lol) So it’s going to take me a bit to whittle down the 300 or so pending.

    You guys who blow through socks you know I can’t keep ten accounts for each of you. So I”m going to cut friends from my personal page that have sock profiles, and ask you to follow my public page -so don’t get pissed at me.

    I thought we would make it through the year with my personal profile page, but we’re growing faster and faster.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 20:33:50 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. SIMPLE FASHION Seriously, I generally keep fo

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    SIMPLE FASHION
    Seriously, I generally keep four to a half a dozen sports jackets, a lot of white, black, and blue oxford shirts (maybe 30), a dozen pairs of (fitted) designer jeans, a couple pairs of slacks (tan), two suits, and a tux. and just dress up with shoes, silk handkerchief and if necessary a tie. (almost never), or dress down with casual shoes and without the sports jacket. This is the most utilitarian wardrobe a man can wear and you will ALWAYS look stellar. Always.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 17:26:32 UTC