Untitled (May 7, 2012 – San Jose, Calif.) May 8, 2012

Untitled (Woman with Blue Mirror) by Bob Clyatt This summer I am looking ever more like my mother once did. My hair flowing halfway down my back as I walk the streets of our neighborhood past old Victorian houses, warehouses, under the overpass, just past a Starbucks, and into an urban garden. Through my earphones [...]

Gigantic and full of feminine menace April 29, 2012

by Louise Bourgeois The Orange Spider by Tony Fitzpatrick Dreamcatcher web Libertine Revue – Lola Montez’s Spider Dance (Lola the Vamp) Joanna Newsom ~ Have One On Me

Semele March 18, 2012

Curious, Semele asked Zeus to grant her a boon. Zeus, eager to please his beloved, promised on the River Styx to grant her anything she wanted. She then demanded that Zeus reveal himself in all his glory as proof of his godhood. Though Zeus begged her not to ask this, she persisted and he was [...]

A few steps from the How-to-Be-a-Good-Human Handbook November 5, 2011

#342: Once in awhile be sure to look yourself straight in the mirror—no, not at your nose—straight in the eyes—and give yourself a good hard smack on the cheek, then smile to your reflection and say, “You are a good human.”

Eagle vs. Eagle (Art / Life) August 13, 2010

Life / Eagle vs. Eagle mid-air fight http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=106106563 Art / “Feather by Feather” by Smog

Wailing Women [media essay] July 23, 2010

Short media essay on depictions of “wailing women,” or women in grief.

Beta Death July 21, 2010

“No. / Not this. / Not this… / A fish is more than just a fish.”

Cinema, Au Revoir! March 8, 2010

“I can not be contained,
in a screen, or on a stage
transfixed by someone else’s
projected soul-beam.”

November Dream February 22, 2010

“Soon, I saw a strange animal on the beach. It was half sheep half boar or half sheep half cow.”

Jesus, etc. January 22, 2010

“Jesus’ blood never failed me yet…”