Monthly Archive: August, 2011

New Issue of Slipstream Out: Includes “Gina from Las Vegas.”

The new issue of Slipstream magazine is out, which includes my poem “Gina From Las Vegas.” Have spent some time today enjoying the new issue, and it is always great to be included… Continue reading

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. -Herman Melville (from Moby Dick)

New Painting: Bigger Than Hemingway

Mark your calendars to come see this and other new work during Fort Point Open Studio: October 14, 15 and 16.

There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hooper and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish filled with question marks. -Kurt Vonnegut (from Breakfast of Champions)

More Progress: 36″ by 48″ oil and acrylic on canvas

The way I write poetry is, I pretend I am madly in love with everything I interact with. It is wildly depressing. -James Autumn

Reading: Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

In Progress: One Degree of Bill dK

More Bigger Than Hemingway

SEAGULLS ON THE ROOF

I won’t worry about the content of our correspondence finding you breathing at the edge of every word, and the folds some characters make near the margins of the page. Truth is, this… Continue reading

All of us rewrite history, one misappropriated garage sale sticker at a time. -Arthur Fischel

Reading: God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

New Painting in Progress: Bigger Than Hemingway

We live by accidents of terrain, you know. And terrain is what remains in the dreaming part of your mind. -Ernest Hemingway

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

It doesn’t seem stupid to me to have five wives if you can afford them. -Ernest Hemingway

Re-listening to Jonathan Lethem read his “You Don’t Love Me Yet.”

Kurt Vonnegut on Skill

New Work: Visual Screenplay- Clooney For A Day