TEMPUS FUGIT

“At all the more important moments while he was telling his story his face took on a very strange, composite expression. I could only interpret it as one of horror at pleasure of… Continue reading →

THRICE VICED

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. —poet Juvenal Rising above a storm-tossed sea of hands and symbolic ephemerals are three columns, one each of the three Greek… Continue reading →

HE ARTS

“I got my heart on my sleeve with a knife in my back, what’s with that? Aye” — Ghostwriter977 Ideas for my postings typically begin as words, as stream of conscious ramblings, as… Continue reading →

LAND OF THE SKY RED WATERS

Why do I have to write anything to caption the drawings I make? Why can’t I just worry an a posteriori title out and publish the thing? I can crank out a drawing… Continue reading →

NEXT BEST THINGS

Keeping people in a constant state of lack, perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.” —bell hooks Was gonna make an early 20th-century Sunday “Funny Pages” drawing like “Little Nemo” or “Krazy Kat,” or… Continue reading →

RETROFICTION

Over timeOne opens doors,Is tempted, then is not.Over timeOpportunity beckonsThen just cons. The drawing above is, as best as I can manage, in the style of one of my art heroes, Edward Gorey… Continue reading →

THE DONOR PARTY

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” —Dante Alighieri, Inferno The drawing on this post is a human-scale… Continue reading →

I-BYZANTIUM

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. (W. B. Yeats 1933) We tend… Continue reading →

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMASES NEVER

Sad, (ironic, too) is that what we share most is our isolation. It’s that time of year again. On screens everywhere are secular creches overflowing with simulations of love and respect. It’s the… Continue reading →

INSUFFICIENT COMPENSATION

From opposite sides Fear and desire build a wall Separating me Another haiga (picture + poem) and so quickly after the last. Sorry. They with their form as important as content construction seem… Continue reading →