EVERYMAN EIDOLON

NOTE: I’ve tried for days to organize my thoughts about the concept that inspired the drawing above. I give up. Please consider the following paragraphs each on their own, more as a collection… Continue reading →

GARAGE BANNED

A poet and a painter walk into a bar. The bartender sez, “What can I get youse guys?” the poet sighs and the painter cries. The world-weary mixologist starts them a tab. THE… Continue reading →

AMERICAN TRIPTYCH

VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL ON EARTH, lost, remembered, and given up on. But I’m not sure what they all mean, not being religious. Sometimes the pictures explain themselves and I just write… Continue reading →

THESE DAYS

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us… Continue reading →

OUT OF PLAY

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick The actors have left the stage, gone to their separate realities. The illusion of their chemistry… Continue reading →

DOG HOUSE CAT

I no longer see myself as some sort of zen-existentialist hero facing the villainous others bravely. I now know that most of these denizens of the real world are not villains, but are… Continue reading →

SECOND CHILDHOOD

In a comment on the previous post regarding post-career life a friend of 60+ years said, “To the extent our old bodies [and finances] will allow, we should become kids again, uncorrupted by… Continue reading →

BITS OF BOTH

Modernist psychologists theorize that early childhood experiences have a huge impact on how we feel and what we do as adults, whether we realize this or not. Postmodernists, on the other hand, believe… Continue reading →

TOYS WERE US

Hey, all you entrepreneurs out there, here’s a concept to exploit an untapped market; 50 grand plus one percent and it’s yours! When they wanted to play adult, Baby Boomer children (Those of… Continue reading →

WESTWORLD MEETS WALL STREET AT THE NOT OK CORRAL

First: You say you want the country run like a business? Do you mean like the one that laid you off, poisoned a town or raises prices ten-fold simply for greed or just… Continue reading →