(I have always wanted to get a performance artist/actor to be my “life coach”, I wonder if I could get a grant for that as a writer?) So today I’ve decided to try to institute a nightly post routine with what I was going to call “still life” pics, but will now call “vignettes”! From […]
Just a few things on my mind, hodge-podged here for you to nosh on. First, its my 20th anniversary in NYC, and I’m mulling over how to mark it, because its a milestone. I feel like a real New Yorker now, like I earned my stripes. And I’m living more or less how I once […]
Memories or childhood stories of myself I wish there was a photo for: 1 – One of my first memories is going to a car lot with my mom to pick up her first car – a brand Volkswagon beetle (or bug as we called it). In red! This car had 20 years on the […]
It was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer trips on a “Guatemalan pepper” that made me want to gather cartoon depictions of drug hallucinations. Of course that clip – like many – is unavailable online (outside a bad 15 second fragment). Still, animation seemed to me the perfect medium to conjure the phantasmagoric, wonky […]
“Gimme a freak any day of the week…i’m comfortable with those you call demented.” – Boy George Leigh Bowery, one of my favorite fashion icons (right up there with Anna Piaggi), original club kid, transgender pioneer, and performance artist extraordinaire died on New Year’s Eve in 1994. A fact I learned by accident yesterday (New […]
I am not a single-mindedly ambitious person ala the workaholic when it comes to my “work”, which encompasses many “non-resume” pursuits too like trying to be a better person or taking care of my health. Yet I seem to be regularly drawn to them. Just as (coincidentally?) I have been to alcoholics (note past-tense). Perhaps […]
