Dave McBride

Glad you found your way here. My intention is to post hundreds of written and audio pieces both new and archival. The tabs above will direct you to stuff and there is a Table of Contents on the lower right side that links to more content. There you will find things like Dave’s Daily Commentaries: http://davemcbride.com/?page_id=3680

Dave and Anita host the progeny from the frozen north. We left the tree up to have a late Christmas and invaded the beach and the South Florida Fair.

A few remembered pieces from 2011 that rise to the level of deserving replay. Says me.

In random order:

Drug Names and the Transformers

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The Amazing Ice Worms of the Gulf of Mexico

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Happy Natal Day, Delray

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The Great Hurricane of 1928

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The Natural Order of Words

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Fish Die

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Florida vs The Everglades

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If This Were An Actual Emergency

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The Big Story

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The Governor vs Anthropology

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Classic Movie Sound Effects Part 1

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Classic Movie Sound Effects Part 2

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Dave Koz, Dave McBride, Paddy Roberts

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Christmas Nuts

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Jingle Bells Medley

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Christmas Parody Songs

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Saturday was the day Wreaths Across America placed wreaths at the graves of fallen military nationwide. In Palm Beach County, the Coast Guard honored fallen servicemen whose grave is the sea. Anita and I were invited and I’ll share photos from this moving event.

Found this guy outside my house and invited him in. Turned out he had an appointment in the pond out back so couldn’t stay long.

My mom and dad as Dad set off for the Pacific. His ship, the USS Birmingham, is pictured below. Here are a trio of Pearl Harbor Day pieces I did today.

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This audio is posted for the teacher who phoned asking to use this piece in her classroom. In it, Dave explores the reasons that paired words are locked in tandem, such as Martin and Lewis, Abbot and Costello and Ben and Jerry’s.

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Anita and I spent the weekend in Miami at Art Basel. An amazing event.  One of the biggest art spectacles in the world. Certainly the biggest art show in the country.

We saw the paparazzi staked out at the W Hotel with their long lenses aimed at the loading zone where celebrities would emerge and climb into black Escalades. Nobody came out while we were there.

Inside the show we had 20 dollar glasses of Ruinart Champagne….the official champagne of Art Basel. 20 dollars a glass. We had one each just to say we did.

And at the rootop pool bar at the Gansevoort Hotel which has the most spectacular views of Miami Beach from way up high, I had the only 9 dollar glass of Corona beer I have ever had. I have bought a 12 pack of Corona for 9 dollars.

But I just got the official recap of Art Basel from the media center and this year broke the record for attendance. 50 thousand people. That includes serious collectors and museums and Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer and Anita and me.

The main collection was at the Miami Convention Center where you could see the Picassos and the Calders and the Henry Moores and Andy Warholes. I saw a drawing of Santa Claus by Andy Warhole I would have liked to hang over the couch for the holidays. Probably for the price of my house.

But there were a ton of art exhibitions all around Miami and we went out in search of those, too.

And we drove over to Little Havana yesterday for some Cuban coffee at the Versailles where Herman Cain famously asked how you say something in Cuban. Great spot, and a great bakery.

And we also had a drink at Tobacco Road, the oldest bar in Miami that was a speakeasy during the Capone days.

But it was mainly art, art art….looking for art…..and it was truly sensory overload. I posted a slide show here and two others. This one is of Art Basel pieces. Another is of Art Miami, a show running concurrently with Art Basel. And a third group of photos of our trip around Miami, including me posing with some German crossdressers whose dresses were spectacular. They were like performance art pieces themselves. They were dressed sort of like June Cleaver. Classic 1950s housewife.

The organizers say sales were brisk but they don’t reveal cash totals. But some think the art show probably moves upwards of 300 million dollars’ worth of artworks.

They say Brazilian collectors were particularly active this year.

Museum collectors looking to add to their collections included the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum of Washington, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

And did you hear about the woman performance artist who was going to spend four days in a pigpen with pigs naked? We did, too, and so we searched it out and we found her. She was inside a building in a commercial space that was behind a picture window and it was a real pig pen and this woman artist ate what the pigs ate and lived like they lived for the whole time of Art Basel—4 days…..24-7. And the title of the exhibit was I Like Pigs and Pigs Like Me……and certain questions arose that were answered by a curator outside the pig pen, and yes, her biological eliminations were performed in full view and in the same way as the pigs. Performance artists are a different breed.

Here are some shots from Art Miami, running concurrently with Art Basel in the Design District.

Dave and Anita spend the weekend in Miami at Art Basel, the biggest art show in the country.  Good times.