I’m going to feature some of my art prints in my collection from time to time. These are two I own by artist SHAG (Josh Agle). I also own two signed gallery guides by him.

BOARD MEETING (This was the second print SHAG ever made and the first seriograph) I paid $40 for it, which included shipping from Australia. SHAG is from LA but there was only one gallery representing him at the time, and they were in Sydney. The last one of these sold for $550 – not sure what it is worth now.

THE DEFINITIVE RETROSPECTIVE (Artist Proof) The last one of this sold for $450 I paid $150 in silent auction at OP OX gallery in Minneapolis – not sure what it is worth now.

Trust me, I rarely defend the Argus Leader and their executive editor Beck. I think in the past year he has really pushed the state’s largest newspaper in the toilet. I don’t think he knows what his readers want, and I doubt he knows what his page editors are doing.

Yesterday’s court hearing was about one thing; The First Amendment and it’s legal precedence.

Sure the parody piece he wrote about Dan Scott was vindictive, mean, and malicious, but it was legal. Scott’s lawyer ‘Wild’ Bill Janklow said that the column was a ‘Hit Job’ on his client. Janklow is right. I think it is safe to assume that it was payback for comments Scott had made at a legislative meeting by making the Argus Leader the butt of one of his jokes with the publisher Arnold Garson present. I’m sure it didn’t sit well with Arnie, so the newspaper shot back. They’ve done it to Kermit Staggers, Theresa Stehly, and even me (Nestor Ramos thinks I’m a stencil vandal, yeah right Maxwell Smart).

This is the one thing the Argus is good at.

Is it ethically right? That’s debatable.

Is it legal? Damn right it is.

This is one of Jesse Christen’s new projects. He is playing with drummer Bobby Berge.
Bobby used to drum with Tommy Bolin (from Deep Purple).