Absent snap
Imagine waking in a dream—a lucid dream, but dream nonetheless—to rumor of someone, an other, with whom one need only suppress a little of one’s [read more...]
Musings
Stikmantica dreams
The first big news regarding Stikmantica is that its mission has transformed. Everything else remains the same. It continues to serve as the mechanism for [read more...]
Montevideo
Last year, soon after releasing the hardback edition of Dvarsh, An Introduction, when I still had cash reserves and thought it only a matter of time before the [read more...]
Regarding last year
2018 was such a year for missteps that recalling accomplishments takes effort. There were strides forward. Creative output has been good. Everything on the [read more...]
Hope on the wall
During the latter days of the illusion of affluence, I paid a small commission to artist Taryn Williams to create a work especially for me. This happened [read more...]
Scattered meditation
There are times when crazy sits close to the surface. Scratches on the page shift in a blink from beautifully formed to ridiculous. All the lessons of the past [read more...]
OMO
Consequences of decisions play out forever. The period 1999 to 2005 was one in which I was quite active artistically, often in a publicly striking way, but few [read more...]
Radio interview next week!
Next Tuesday, November 6, I’ll be a guest on the “Community Pilot” show on KOOP, airing from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. I do not know if [read more...]
In the Rearview Mirror: Texas Book Festival
At this writing, the planet has moved two and a half days beyond the 2018 Texas Book Festival. This places it approximately 53 million miles from the points it [read more...]
Spilling the beans on Dvarsh
This may not make sense to anyone else. I wish people would stop congratulating me for creating Dvarsh. It’s not that friendly thoughts are not [read more...]
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