Love from Wilson World, Tom

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Love from Wilson World,
Tom

Just back from a bunch of shows in Dayton, Ohio, home of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and lots of Camaro Z28's with Air Force stickers on the windows. I stayed in a Holiday Inn that was close to an Arby's, so I've had plenty of roast beef in the past few days, and the hotel was hosting a big reunion of the Air Force Escape and Evasion Society.

I thought the place was empty. I never saw a soul. Last Thursday I did see one of the ferns near the elevator rustle. Thanks, Dayton! Thanks Air Force! Thanks evasive escape guys!

Love form Wilson World,

Tom

Love from Wilson World, Tom

I went to Tempe, Arizona recently to perform for the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University. We had a great time there, and it was interesting that a school of mass communications couldn't find a microphone stand for me to use! My friend "Jonny Cool Rag" and I hopped over to Scottsdale to check out what's happening in the art galleries there. We were speaking passionately about a large painting, when a woman walked up to us. "You don't like art!" she blurted, without ever having met us, "You look like two construction workers! Macho guys don't like art!"

Okay, lady. You know, we were treated more nicely in Quartzite, Arizona, in the middle of the desert, where we saw a shrunken head from 1906. Trust me, the shrunken head was a lot better than most of the paintings.

Love from Wilson World,

Tom

This painting is 30 x 40, a big challenge. Oddly, a human being is the
hardest subject for a painting, since a half inch mistake wrecks the
whole thing. As the master painter John Singer Sargent said; "A
portrait is a picture where there's something wrong with the mouth."
Well, there is plenty about this painting that could be improved, but
it's a boy with his boogieboard at the Pacific Ocean, and it doesn't
get much better than that. Cowabunga, dude.

Hi all!

Just got another YouTube Video up!  Click the link to enjoy:

"The Homonym Song"

Love from Wilson World,
Tom

Sister Corita Kent was a Nun in California in the sixties, and I was a
boy in Catholic school in Philadelphia in the sixties, so I experienced
the passion, and vibrancy, and color, and innovation of that time while
wearing a suit and tie, taught by young Nuns, many of whom were
exploding with the thrill and wonder of the kind of work that Sister
Corita was creating - color splashed posters with lots of poetry and
flower power. I saw an exhibition of Sister Corita's work yesterday and
was transported back to that time, when Op art and Pop art and poetry
were presented to kids as a completely rational and beautiful reaction
to a time of great upheaval and fear. I'm really glad that in the
fourth grade Sister Ruth had us making colorful collages about war, and
joy, and Warhol soup cans, and I'm proud of the day that my grandfather
put Pop art daisy stickers on the back of his car.

Hi Everyone!

I'll be in beautiful Columbia, Missouri next week:

March 5-7:

Deja Vu Comedy Club

405 Cherry St.
Columbia, MO  65201
Phone:  573-443-3216

Get your reservations early!!

www.TomWilsonUSA.com

Come and see me, and bring your friends!

Love from Wilson World,
Tom