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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Untitled (May 7, 2012 – San Jose, Calif.)
May 8, 2012
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
Imagine (Present Tense)
November 17, 2011
The Occupy Wall St. movement is inspiring to me. Today, it made me think of the promise of John Lennon’s, “Imagine,” and what it would sound like in the grammatical present tense. There is no Heaven. No hell below us. Above us only sky. All the people are Living for today. There are no countries. [...]
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.”
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.”
Jesus, etc.
January 22, 2010
“Jesus’ blood never failed me yet…”
Versus
October 23, 2009
Olympics, border conflicts, and thoughts on man versus man.