Emotional Biographic Imagery in the Mind Cave

My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life. I try to work every day, because you have no refuge but writing. Tennessee Williams The Mind in the Cave Barcelona’s Gothic’ February 2013 You can see Ice Age Art: […]

Hand in Glove

Handsome, a physical specimen, educated with grace and manners but are we capable as California/artist/performer/author of being debonair? Is our style too casual, too wash and wear, with silk and linen missing from our closet? The Bordeaux is one continent and one ocean removed. We go to the Napa Valley. It is all so downscale. […]

Coming Homing, Gardening as Show Stopper

Dom and Jane live in Wooloweyah, Australia. I booted my Google Earth program and took a look. Dom elects to put as much distance between the world’s troubles and his home as space will allow. Yamba, the nearest town is a tourist destination located just north of Dom’s village. I’ve known Dom for his work […]

Yes, I’m the Great Pretender

Who are you kidding? Delusion abounds in this the age of information. We are deluded and misdirected in this ever increasingly complex civilization we have been born into. I try to understand economics. I read about the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. I listen to commentary on the radio. One friend is angry at labor unions. […]

Big Bad Boats

Rocket Science a mini-monster from the Cook Islands. This is 50 feet, water ballasted, twin ruddered, carbon fibered, wickedly fast boat with a 13 foot draft!!!! I stepped aboard a monster Sunday. The beast tethered to a dock. Sixty-five feet of ocean going, purpose built, go anywhere, under any conditions sailboat. The beast had […]

Crying at Weddings

I cry at weddings. I don’t need to know the couple. I just find the whole thing so romantic. My mind begins to wander and I become overwhelmed. You know the sociologists are fretting over the differential emerging between various income groups and their likelihood that they will marry. More money is predictive of taking […]

Tender Mercies for Billionaires

Now we Darwinian types do prefer our coffee black and we’ll take our capitalism as wild and predatory as nature itself. Social stabilizers, rules to the road, well regulated markets are for softies. The era of abundance is over. I never got a crack at enjoying the thing while it was around. So what we […]

You Talking to Me?

A Place to Fight For Not A Place to Come for a Fight Here is our nation’s best known asylum for the rhetorically ‘toxified practitioner’ of the fine art of heated speech. I walked the Presidential portraits at the National Gallery. Nobody was around so I spoke to them about our nations present moment, how Congress has […]

Dating a Female Roller Derby Star

I used to work at a hospital. I worked in dietary. I was one of the dishwashers. The women from local roller derby team came for physical therapy. I used to run into the women in the hallway. They were good fun. This was back in the day. They were older women I was still […]

Factual Straightjackets

Do you shop at the local produce markets that pop up in your community? I do. I relate to the whole notion of how much it costs to transport food long distances. I heard that because food from the southern hemisphere swirls in the opposite direction of food in the northern hemisphere that there is […]