Portrait by Remo Frangiosa

Philly-Bob’s Free-for-All 2026 One man's visual art, largely consisting of digital manipulations of images, taken from (1) my own photographs/videos, (2) downloaded from the Public Domain, (3) utilized under the Fair Use provision of copyright law or (4) uncopyrightable images produced by A.I. image generation. This page is designed old-style, for display on full-size computer, not on phones or tablets. Click on a pic to enlarge. May take several clicks to get full-size.

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Kristi Noem is Trump's head of Homeland Security and the force behind recent ICE militarization. Although it is ungallant to criticize a woman politician for her appearance, Noem's carefully-curated mug is worth pointing out. She will probably be fired soon, but she is ever-present on America's news shows right now.

Two interfering layers:

1. The face of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem Source: "https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/comments/1q9t3nd/the_outside_is_starting_to_match_the_inside/"
2. A collage of illustrations from a 1930 auto industry periodical: "https://archive.org/details/sim_automotive-news_1930-12-31_10_1371"

Jan. 29, 2026

I haven't done a regular (my art piece plus my explanation) posting since Dec. 3. Part of this was exhaustion from putting together my show in December. And part of this was concern over what Shrinks call a "Family of Origin" issue: the declining health of my older sister Mimi.

Luckily, my family of friends responded nicely. My friend Ted took an old family photo -- from a 1969 antiwar protest -- and digitally altered it to highlight Mimi and I. Then my friends Jim and Peggy offered to drive Janice and I to Richmond, Virginia, to see her.

And my neice Maureen arranged lodgings for Janice and I and Jim and Peggy at Mimi's housing complex.

What I love about the 1969 picture is that it shows that despite the harsh divisions of the Vietnam War -- notice that Mimi is making a thumbs down signal while I make a clenched fist signal -- she was still gracious enough to put up me and my fellow protesters at her suburban home. And eventually, this former Goldwater Girl came around to become a progressive.

Jan. 14, 2026

I have the habit of noting the URL's of songs that I enjoy during my dazed stumblings through the Internet. Most of these are Oldies that brought tears to my eye. I save those songs as Comments on my web page. Here are a few of them. In my biased opinion, I lived through a period of wonderful popular music during my years in Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia.

Dance with Me (1975)
Downtown (1964)
Memphis
Leader of the Pack (1964)
My Guy
Steely Dan My Old School
Tiny Dancer
Everlasting Love
Lies 1965
As Tears Go By
Radar Love
Do You Believe in Magic?
It's My Life

Also, my hometown music buddy Hugh wrote to suggest I add Leo Sayer's I Can Dance. Hugh used a riff from the song in the soundtrack for a movie we did, "X-Way Island."

And here.

Dec. 12, 2025

This is a pivotal posting: it marks a new year (2026). It will be the last item of the 2025 edition, and the first item of the 2026 edition. Hours of tedious work ahead to accomplish this and to archive all the 2025 entries. Part of my usual holiday funk -- too many holidays, too many Christmas movies and commercials, plus that annual reminder of passing time, my birthday.

This picture also represents a recurring motif: "JUST DONT FALL", which is the one certainty I have about how other people should live their lives. No matter what legal or medical problems you have right now, friends, you will certainly be worse off if you trip and fall.

Picture contain two different layers:

• Picture of an entrance hall at some institution, with stairway and house cat.
• A decorative pattern I made from a background color and a dingbat font (MTF Leaves) of leaves

Originals:
   

Dec. 8, 2025

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