Diablo Dispatch, Part One - Anthems
The same year that I started trashing Reaganomics* for its racism, carelessness, negligence, and greed in in my sinisterly named high...
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Toddlb
Aug 14, 20171 min read
Amerikkka.
We'll never rest. My affiliations and heroes are not guiltless or altogether clean, but none has ever been allied with or on the same...
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Todd
Aug 9, 20174 min read
Alt. History
On a recent post, I noted that Trudeau has a knack for putting words in Trump's mouth (there's a book, in fact). Every imagined scenario...
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Todd
Aug 5, 20171 min read
Rhymes with...
Before teeing off recently, Trump reportedly told members of his Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey: “That White House...
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Todd
Apr 2, 20177 min read
Opening Day
Invented in England, baseball slipped away with the colonies. It's ours. It rises above. We needn't dwell on oligarchies today. Trump...
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Todd Pound
Mar 19, 20178 min read
Catalysts
Author's note: As a moderate extremist, this is not fun. Shucks, many of my favorite creations (all now on the chopping block): National...
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Todd Pound
Feb 16, 20173 min read
(Name) Call & Response
"Todd Pound you are a complete moron. I see lots of folks like you who are so brainwashed you can't even think! You are the poster boy...
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Todd
Jan 26, 20171 min read
That's It!
“The new president displays an alarming disinterest in evidence,” remarks Bruce Fuller, Professor, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of...
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Todd
Jan 20, 20174 min read
Songs 2016
Hi. These artists released albums last year: Charlie Parker, Otis Redding, Mekons, The Rolling Stones. David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Leonard...
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Todd (2020)
Jan 15, 20176 min read
Regulations Are Everything
In my newest story, a couple of prominent characters employ art and design to communicate scientific data pertaining to looming...
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Todd (2020)
Dec 28, 20163 min read
So this is Christmas
I'm glad the Little Drummer Boy’s drumming made little baby Jesus smile. Art > Material Goods (even kingly gifts!). That carol is Guthrie...
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Todd
Nov 17, 20161 min read
Pie
Even bad years have days when a friend bakes a plethora of mini-pies on mason jar lids in the middle of July.
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Todd
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Fighting the Preppy Cross
My family arrived here illegally in 1634 (my ancestors likely waited for the cheaper second or third boat. Regardless of their actual...
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Toddlb
Nov 12, 20163 min read
ME 2020
I'm in! I am running for President of the United States. The ultimate outsider. My qualifications: I have a Political Science background...
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Toddlb
Nov 5, 20161 min read
Yuge
I am a practitioner of a ridiculously old-fashioned pursuit: inking a comic-strip. My kids insist I'm simply tracing... and they're...
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Todd
Sep 7, 20162 min read
Battered Footwear + Me
Sometime in the 1980s, I strolled into the Rainbow sandal factory in San Clemente, California to pick up a new pair of simple leather...
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Todd
Sep 3, 20162 min read
The Mill Valley Modesty Preservation Society, Special Selection
Shortly after my deep infatuation with Art Deco (a prerequisite obsession for anyone with eyes), I curiously disappeared into dogmatic...
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Todd Pound
Apr 29, 20162 min read
Building Samples
A couple days ago, SF Chronicle architecture critic John King addressed Facadism, the technique of preserving an old facade while...
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Todd
Apr 8, 20161 min read
Velocity
I stumbled into this photo from a few years back, but it feels like it might've occurred just a couple hours ago. Time... utterly...
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Todd
Apr 8, 20161 min read
Ai Way
I've caught a few great Ai Weiwei installations, but nothing as comprehensive as the Royal Academy's 25 year retrospective. I missed the...
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