New Work in Progress

Reading: Hemingway: The FInal Years by Michael Reynolds

New Must-Read for Visual Artists: “The Humbugs” by Kurt Vonnegut (from the collection While Mortals Sleep)

Poem for Martin

You are a postmark in that wherever you have been you bear black ink from. The mark of a writer, or a reader of phonebooks. When given the choice between the Yellow Pages… Continue reading →

More Progress

Song Most Consistently Stuck in My Head: Incarcerated Scarfaces by Raekwon

Mitch Martin for President

Summer Blockbuster: Sketchbook Today

Advice for Everyone

What Guns Say (I Am America): Sketchbook Today

More Progress: Two Women on an Airplane

If you catch the light the moment after it passes through stained glass, you’re bound to find a Rothko. -Arthur Fischel

Autocomplete turned my “boo”s into “boohoo”s and then into “biopsies.” -James Flame

In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of anonymity. -Cindy Nightfeather

New In-Progress: Two Women on an Airplane (oil on canvas)

Art God Baldessari Doubles My Fame

See the message below for info on my 15 seconds of fame being doubled to an astounding 30!!!! 1) Did my name break the machine, as I can only hope? and 2) If… Continue reading →

In Honor of Boston Pride: Tomorrow Will Really be Sunday by Ron Schreiber

Below is the poem by Ron Schreiber as it appeared in Hanging Loose #85 in 2004. Thought it would be fitting to include with this year’s Boston Pride, the winter’s weather, the day,… Continue reading →

Baldessari Manequin at Boston City Sports

When applying for a writing job today, I wrote Boob Reviewer instead of Book Reviewer in the subject line of the email. -James Flame

Idyllic Public Gardens Today

My favorite is when people say ‘To be honest.’ It’s as if they are admitting they were lying the entire time. -Arthur Fischel