Art/Skill/Techne

  • Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification

    Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in… Continue reading

    Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification
  • Science Fiction and the Post-Ferguson World: “There Are as Many Ways to Exist as We Can Imagine”

    Walidah Imarisha, a writer and activist, coined the term “visionary fiction” to describe how we can use science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres to envision alternatives to unjust and oppressive systems.I talked with Imarisha about how science fiction can inspire… Continue reading

  • “Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu

    Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of… Continue reading

  • Teasing the Force

    First international teaser trailer for Star Wars, Episode 7: the Force Awakens… Continue reading

    Teasing the Force
  • Speaking in Tongues

    humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading

    Speaking in Tongues
  • Mull of Kintyre

    One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading

    Mull of Kintyre
  • Contemplation 209

    Eye turning upward   I falls away: Encompassing. Decisive release Continue reading

    Contemplation 209
  • Love – To Not Be – Asleep

    Faith: trusting Hope: expecting Love: creating      Here comes the sun To be: having To become: flowing To not be: emptying      Raindrops keep falling on my head Awake: questioning Dreaming: transforming Asleep: detaching      The baffled… Continue reading

    Love – To Not Be – Asleep
  • Shedding

    Taking out the trash I note a strange movement Near my feet Small garden snake Sliding and undulating Over sidewalk Happy I did not step on her Watching the slipping pattern Do not give more fright Than you have already… Continue reading

    Shedding
  • Night Vigil 22 Oct 2014

    The enduring meaning of a process is the intuitive impulse to create. This is mirrored in the instinctual drives toward procreation and tool making. You can trace back any produced thing to its original. But the original is the expression… Continue reading

  • In Defense Of Ms. Hill — Cuepoint — Medium

    No matter what Lauryn Hill decided to do after she gave us The Miseducation, never forget that she already gave us The Miseducation. It was the most critically acclaimed album of 1998 and has become a modern classic. The following… Continue reading

  • Wonder Woman’s Secret Past

    Wonder Woman’s origin story comes straight out of feminist utopian fiction. In the nineteenth century, suffragists, following the work of anthropologists, believed that something like the Amazons of Greek myth had once existed, a matriarchy that predated the rise of… Continue reading

    Wonder Woman’s Secret Past
  • Something Personal, Hidden, and Human

    via Romantic Moment on Vimeo. Based on the poem by Tony Hoagland. Directed by John Arthur Wilson III Starring: Jill Henson & Lance Weihmuller II Narrated by Spencer Peirce Continue reading

    Something Personal, Hidden, and Human
  • Ressentiment on Aug 17

    Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading

    Ressentiment on Aug 17
  • What Is The Isleworth Mona Lisa?

    Two years before the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the aging artist was visited by Cardinal Luigi d’Aragona to survey his works. A diary written by the Cardinal’s secretary suggests da Vinci showcased a Mona Lisa portrait different than the… Continue reading

    What Is The Isleworth Mona Lisa?
  • A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR

    Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A… Continue reading

    A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR
  • Dumb Movie About Brain Capacity

    I cringe whenever the trailer for LUCY shows up online or at the theater.  The notion that humans use only 10% of our brain is so silly. It is passed around because of a popular equivalence: the mind = the brain. So,… Continue reading

    Dumb Movie About Brain Capacity
  • Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters

    After ten years in the specialty coffee industry, Andy Sprenger returned with his family to his home town of Lakewood, Colorado to start a new chapter in his coffee career. Formerly the head roaster for Ceremony Coffee, he brings a wealth… Continue reading

    Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters