David Hockney Passes Away in the Year of the Horse?🐴🖌🎨🎭

A Bigger Slash (1967)

I was reading about David Hockney in Michael Caine's book 'Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over' and wondered if it was the same David Hockney who passed away this month?

I learned of David's passing when reading the latest { feuilleton } blog post.

{ feuilleton } 
A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart

I wrote a post about David back in 2018 -

Drowning, Not Wave-ing: World's Most Popular Artist?

Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

John recommended this track by the 'Horse Lords' to listen to in that post, as well.

Desert Island Discs:
Sir Michael Caine

Every June 21st

Every June 21st

How to Celebrate National Daylight Appreciation Day?⛅🌞

How to Celebrate National Daylight Appreciation Day?⛅🌞

Every June 21st

Northern Hemisphere:
June 20th or 21st.
Southern Hemisphere:
December 21st or 22nd.

It might be Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, but it's Winter Solstice down here in Australia, and it doesn't look like I'll be doing much daylight appreciating today.

Maybe I'll just have to go inside and listen to music and finish reading my book?

Every June 21st

Desert Island Discs:
Sir Michael Caine

Michael Caine Sounds Like "My Cocaine" in a Cockney Accent?😀

When I Watch Toy Story Movies Why Can't I Stop Thinking About the Chinese Zodiac?🐍🐎🐐🐵💭

Toy Story 5 is the year's most traumatic film
 - for parents

The horse year follows the snake year

How to Celebrate World Doll Day?🪆🎎🎬

"There's a snake in my boot"?

Year of the Rat/Disney?-)

I've been watching the first four Toy Story movies on Disney+ the last few weeks and saw 'Toy Story 5' at the cinema today and wish I had a dollar for every horse I saw in that movie.

Watching the first four movies I couldn't help seeing connections to the Chinese zodiac animals.

Woody rides a horse named 'Bullseye', so Woody has very much a Year of the Horse vibe, plus Woody's girlfriend in the movie is Bo Peep, who looks after sheep.

Year of the Pig?

Year of the Ram/Goat/Sheep?

Hey, isn't 8 a lucky number in Chinese culture?-)

And doesn't the Monkey year
follow the Ram/Sheep year?

Maybe I've just been tearing off too many pages on my Chinese wall calendar and Toy Story is just about all those nostalgic toys we used to play with ... or at least know about?

Tom Hanks was born in 1956, the Year of the Fire Monkey:-)

Nouns of Assembly: A Barrel of Sea Monkeys? 🌊🙈🙉🙊

How to Celebrate American Eagle Day?🌎🦅⚽🌏

Every June 20th

I guess Australia playing the USA on June 20th (Australian time) was never a good omen for us Aussies, with June 20th being American Eagle Day.

Having been a Seattle Seahawks fan since the 90s and having toured the stadium when I was over there in 2025 when the field was marked out for a soccer match for that day, I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that my own country would be playing the USA on that pitch in 2026.

Unfortunately though, I had to watch the game on my TV set in my living room, just like I had to when the Seahawks won the Superbowl this year.

The field was marked
for a soccer game when I visited

How to Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday in Australia?🌎🏈📺🥳🏆🌏

Skyrocketing prices set to hit Socceroos fans

I got up on Saturday morning at 5am like the majority of Aussies watching on the eastern coast of Australia looking forward to a good game.

But unfortunately, I watched one of the worst performances by any World Cup Socceroo squad ever.

And the Americans didn't play much better in my opinion.

I would have felt ripped off watching that game in the stadium on the day even for the price of the cheapest ticket, because there was certainly no value as far as the action on the field went.

Hopefully one day soon I will get to see a good game of football live in Seattle, but I doubt that it will be a soccer game.

Me in Seattle in 2025

Looking Out of the Space Needle to Mount Rainier to Where Kenneth Arnold Had a UFO Sighting?🛸👀👽

UPDATE:

Yawn!