“Observe yourself as you start to drift toward the internet, searching for confirmation that you suck, and then use that impetus as a signal to instead turn off your phone or internet connection and be messy in your art for… Read More ›
Education
MEET THE NEW YEAR, SAME AS THE OLD YEAR?
“Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!” ― Waylon Jennings 2021 is officially in the rearview mirror and we are now staring straight at the… Read More ›
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE POLITICAL THEATER
“We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.” ― Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis December 17th. That’s when the last Dad Gone Wild… Read More ›
THE SINS OF MY PAST REVISITED
“I think about it like this,” Bart said. “We are confined to the present, but this moment we’re living now has, for all of history, been the future. And now, forever more, it will be past. Everything we do sets… Read More ›
SERVING UP DISTRACTIONS
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship, you don’t have to waste your time voting” ― Bukowski C. Back in the halcyon days when… Read More ›
A HAIRCUT WITH SLOTSKY
“Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage.” ― Jane Harper, The Lost Man The… Read More ›
LIFE LONG DUPE OR KNOWING CO-CONSPIRATOR
“Mystic ways may not all travel but life’s riddles we can unravel.” ― James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution For those growing up in NE Pennsylvania in the early Eighties, it… Read More ›
THE WRONG INVESTMENTS
“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator” ― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland A couple nights… Read More ›
MORE SINS OF OMISSION
“The world of [comic book] collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.” ― Seth, Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Collector in the World… Read More ›
THANKSGIVING RUMINATIONS
“The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.” ― Angela Carter Another Thanksgiving has come and gone and we now find ourselves… Read More ›
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