Art

From the About page for this blog (well worth a look), and especially for me, right now, today. Having this tattooed inside my eyelids, I swear:
When I’m able to write like that, I feel ecstasy and unity with all Creation. It’s like an athlete performing an “impossible” feat with seeming effortlessness and grace. I live [...]

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I feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I’ve turned the power on again. The creature lives!
My baby. My first and only website for a long time, between ‘96 and ‘98, the inimitable animated GIF wonderland of the ZOO ZONE, or ZooZone, or however I did write it. (I still own the zoozone.com domain, although it’s parked.) Just [...]

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There isn’t any contest, actually: I just took the photo here by squatting half-naked in the acequia, and yes it was cold.
But this gives me a chance to talk about truck surfing, yes!
Back in the old days on the Eastern Shore of Maryland near Chestertown, there was a thing my friends did when a [...]

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This is an old sculpture of mine, cast bronze — I took it yesterday before the calendar started moving backwards.
Some years ago, before moving to New Mexico, I won a Maryland Arts Council grant to produce a series of bronzes based on cat skulls — the “Cat Project,” naturally. It’s easy to add things [...]

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My wife’s dead watch batteries (both of ‘em!) presented a curious opportunity.
Since the Radio Shack store was just a couple of blocks from Rick Smith’s Brodsky Bookshop, I could fulfill my manly obligation to buy replacement watch batteries and also redeem last year’s $35 Christmas gift certificate from Brodsky’s, which I’d only recently belatedly unearthed [...]

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Bud Grace draws this comic strip. I’ve considered him a genius for years. The current theme of Ernie’s evil nephew Spencer tormenting his dad into buying him a weasel for a pet is fantastic laugh medicine — in this frame, Spencer is in the “weasel store. ” Just the way Bud draws the weasel cracks [...]

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