Category Archives: art
Duty and sacredness and mysterious-God-like-darknesses, factors of writing or reading a damn story
In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamador. The Tralfamadorians ask him if he has any questions and Billy says, Why me? The aliens reply by saying, “There is no why.” Which to … Continue reading
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Without great solitude, no serious work is possible
If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our forebears but because we just don’t care as much about ideas as they did. In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a … Continue reading
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As you read, some memory comes back to you. Now, in your own mind, you are inventing a story.
Now, as you read, some memory has come back to you. Now, in your own mind, you are inventing a story. In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes described the studium and punctum of a photograph. There are elements of composition and subject … Continue reading
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Giving Ourselves to Something Which May Change Us – John Ashbery
John Ashbery, Winner of the 1976 National Book Award for SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR. For as long as I have been publishing poetry, it has been criticized as “difficult” and “private,” though I never meant for it to be. At least, I wanted its … Continue reading
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A Writer’s Palinopsia
When I was five I dressed up as a football player for Halloween. I wore an Oregon State Beaver football jersey and a plastic Seattle Seahawks helmet. I painted black marks under my eyes, wore my baseball cleats, and stuffed … Continue reading
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Lady Gaga, a Slave to Pop Culture or its Queen?
Lady Gaga doesn’t rest. But art needs rest in order to continue creating. Continue reading
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The Most Important 30 Seconds
In any 60 minute football game the amount of action lasts approximately 11 minutes. In any 60 minute hockey game the amount of time one player has possession of the puck is 30-120 seconds. Which means football players spend more … Continue reading
The Best Thing Ever
I don’t like chit chat. Or to put nicer, chit chat is hard for me. I’ve heard this is a characteristic of introverts. So yesterday, when I’m sitting at the baseball game, and the two single, middle-aged women, who are … Continue reading
