John W Buaas

@johnwbuaas

Retired Prof. of English, living in Wichita KS. PhD in 20c. Am. Lit. Proud husband, father. Inordinately fond of Mexico City. Surname rhymes w/ Louis. Books read in 2026:

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John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· 25d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pelvis with the Distance (1943) I thank O'Keeffe for naming my new Elvis-impersonator-fronting-a-Calexico-tribute-band project.

An enormous bone pelvis rise out of a desert plain, a range of mountains in the far distance.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· 26d

Julian Onderdonk, Cactus in Bloom (1915)

A trail in the Texas Hill Country, bounded on each side by at least two varieties of blooming prickly pear cacti.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· 26d

Stories like this one kept popping up last month:

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· 28d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Abstraction

A large spiraling shape, set on its edge, with a smaller near-circle set within the void of the larger spiral.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· 29d

Joe Maria Velasco, Estudio de nopal

A large nopal sits atop a rock outcropping, with a yellow sky as background.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 11

William Merritt Chase, Bank of a Lake in Central Park (1890) Those greens in the foreground and middle ground . . .

The painting shows the bank of a large pond, with a small dock extending into the water and two small rowboats on either side of it. There's a path running parallel to the bank of the pond, and a small bench is visible under a tree near where the dock touches the bank.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 9

Share a circle Edward Hopper, The Circle Theater

Edward Hopper, The Circle Theater. The painting shows most of a theater marquee blocked by a covered street entrance to a subway station.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 8

They're so quiet about that, they're holding fundraisers for him.

Screenshot of a post, the main subject of which is an upcoming fundraiser for Ken Paxton.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 7

Jose Maria Velasco, Cascada de Rincón Grande (1874)

A painting of a small waterfall in a mountainous region somewhere in Mexico.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 6

Happy birthday, Frida Kahlo.

Nikolas Muray, Frida Painting The Two Fridas. Kahlo, holding a palette and paintbrush, sits in front of her painting The Two Fridas.

Kahlo, What the Water Gave Me. Our pov is that of a person sitting in a bathtub, their toes above the water's surface. On the surface of that water, we see figures of people, a volcano (out of which emerges a skyscraper), and plants and animals.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 5

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 4

Dreiser, Sister Carrie Twain, Huckleberry Finn William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth

Cover art for Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

Cover art for Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Cover art for William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 3

Sometimes people are just 21 in learning years . . .

A screenshot of a tweet that reads, "this has been talked about extensively you're just 21"

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jul 1

Our first two Boston pickling cucumbers. The Intertoobz say to pick them before they turn yellow, so I hope these are under that wire. Lots more out there on the vine, just getting started.

The first two Boston pickling cukes from our garden this season.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 26

I'm okay with this result. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 26

The article notes that Driscoll has a past, though:

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 26

Via a FB friend.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 23

Ho-hum, you may be saying: Yet another picture of green tomatoes in the early summer. The Internet's full of them. But this tomato plant has been alive since Nov., when my son sprouted and grew it for a science project. It appeared to be near death when we put it outside in the early spring. 1/2

A Roma tomato plant with two green tomatoes on either side of the image's center.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 22

He's running for Ron Estes' seat.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 20

My son, standing next to Helen Frankenthaler's painting, Summer Green, at the Wichita Art Museum

A boy stands next to Helen Frankenthaler's painting, Summer Green. The painting is in the Abstract Experssionist style, dominated in its center by a swath of shades of dark green.

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 19

Happy Juneteenth!

The text of General Order No. 2, issued in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865:

"The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor.--The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere. By order of
Major-General Granger.
F. W. Emery, Maj. and A. A. G."

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 16

#Bloomsday

A poster in which a woman, posed like Rosie the Riveter, faces the viewer. A caption both above and beneath her reads, "Hey, Trieste! Molly Blooms says Yes you can//read Ulysses."

John W Buaas@johnwbuaas· Jun 13

Today is the 2nd anniversary of our adopting Mish-Mish. Apologies for the poor photo quality; we're aiming here for the documentary rather than the aesthetic. #Caturday