I'm not easily impressed...

...though I must admit that the weather here has been impressive of late...but I digress... 

What really has me riveted is this image I keep coming back to every time I flip through my latest issue of Art Forum 

It's a picture of Herman Nitsch doing what Herman Nitsch obviously must do.  I've never been too interested in the actions of the Vienna Actionists, and I'm still not.  Europeans and their relationship with violence scare me when it is real and bore me when it is aestheticized (watch the video).  But here, with this one still, I'm affected...