bookofjoe channels Foucault

The French philosopher, one of the leading lights of deconstruction, once remarked, "Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't exist."

Andy Warhol couldn't have said it better.

But I digress.

I'm reminded of Foucault's wonderful epigram — it doesn't matter if it's true or not (and after all, what is "true?"), it's still superb — every time I get a request from someone to use something that's appeared in bookofjoe.

Because 99+% of the time, that "something" is a photo or drawing or graph or the like that I've simply appropriated on the fly because it fit, not having hesitated a zeptosecond to consider whether or not to ask permission to use it.

Two long-held observations come to mind: "It's far easier to apologize than to ask permission" and "If we wait till we're ready, we'll never get started," the latter by Eleanor Roosevelt.

So, to save you time and trouble should you wonder if it's okay to use something you find here for your own purposes, the answer is a blanket "yes."

Free, of course — the way it should always be.

Though I do wonder if it ever happens that some corporate lawyerbot comes after someone who's been given the okay by me, only to be told, "But, but... bookofjoe gave me permission to use it!"

w00t!