Sonnet 09/19/017
Ill stars hang thick above a howling crowd, congested red, atomic guts inflamed, slit eyes on bloody heaves of iron uncowed, the very stones afire, our [read more...]
Musings
The Postcard Project, by Sarah Belle Reid
Among the extraordinary artists enriching the New Media Art & Sound Summit 2017 was Sarah Belle Reid. Performing in three very different sets—a solo set [read more...]
Physical Therapy: “Wasted Years”
http://www.robertstikmanz.com/wp-content/uploads/Wasted-Years-07-28-017.mp3 December 28, 2016, I fell, breaking the scaphoid bone in my left wrist when [read more...]
Confessions of a shade tree lexicographer
All existing Dvarsh word lists have been exhausted as sources of dictionary entries for Dvarsh, An Introduction. Currently, I am reviewing the lexicon for [read more...]
Election Thoughts 2016, Part 2
The 2016 presidential election did not come out of the blue. It was not a whiplash reaction to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton or to the eight years of Barack [read more...]
Living room music 03-28-017
On the way to the vein clinic for what I had hoped would be the final follow-up on a series of procedures performed last year on my legs, the mighty Scion once [read more...]
Election Thoughts 2016, Part 1
The surprise with which many disappointed voters greeted the role of the electoral college in this year’s election outcome is a disconcerting trace of [read more...]
A Band of Thrm’m
While collecting audio sources for a project associated with the New Media Art and Sound Summit (NMASS) 2016, composer Laura Brackney asked if I had ever [read more...]
Dvarsh font advance
This evening saw completion of the initial image set in book weight of the twenty-two core glyphs of the Dvarsh writing system. Each of the twenty-two [read more...]
A tentative postulate
Consider that mind—like a garden, a species, an economy, or realms of discourse—may grow vulnerable in sameness and vigorous in diversity. How cool is [read more...]
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