Last Communion

Here is a modest hard copy edition of Throop commentary on art, culture, and politics published in cyberspace over a two year period. The promises of the Internet via the corporate cloud ring hollow in a future which will be able to erase any literary account of a person's living that its power base deems unnecessary. After several years of being duped by Google, the author now believes his wireless servant to be a colorful telephone, exciting encyclopedia, and a special room to show a Walter Mitty brilliance to all and sundry. But it will never become the trusted box to shelve his love, hope and dreams for posterity. Never ever. The author would also like to remind his readers that he is a working painter, and for economical reasons, has blasphemed on the altar of color for including grayscale facsimiles of recent work. A lot of them are for sale too. Oh yes, he forgot to mention the greatest value of the Internet: Money exchanging. You can find his work for sale online. There Tam and Friends is renowned like Wanda's Scented Candle Shop and the CIA World Factbook of lies.