Last nite I had the first of several dinner parties to celebrate my 20th anniversary living in New York before it ends (early September). Its a milestone I’ve wanted to mark but I burned out on big parties (esp. in my apartment) so decided to organize a small impromptu gathering. 13 of us in a […]
So I’m watching the final season of Breaking Bad, and I was unexpectedly upset when Jesse, after finally escaping from his psychopath captors, doesn’t make it over the fence. Like, whaaaah?! At this point he is a total martyr and his pain is my pain. I guess the best thing about ending a show for […]
Today I got an email from a guy I went out with explaining he’d not received emails I sent weeks ago until just then because they were sent to an iCloud account he never uses instead of gmail. He forwarded an example. He also apologized for appearing to leave me hanging, which I didn’t deserve, […]
“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which imparted to his shoulders a most insolent submissiveness.” ― Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal, 1948 The Thief’s Journal is one of my favorite books. The kind you can deeply commune with, […]
Here’s the latest mash-up created from a long list of excerpts I compiled, in no particular order, from films, TV, commercials, cartoons, etc. What’s presented here reflects what my intern, the amazing Nick Stromberg, could cull online, and edit together. There will be more…ENJOY! Tweet
Teaching Abstract Expressionism is never easy but its essential to the traditional modernist narrative, which I dismantle and question (I almost wrote “unpack”, phew) as a matter of course, and Ab-Ex provides ample opportunity:) Mostly its Pollock who bothers me, the shaman alcoholic (or is it the wounded cowboy?) whose vulnerability both tempered and underscored […]
