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 →

LET THEM LAUGH

 ‘“I wear the chain I forged in life.”  replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my… Continue reading →

QUID PRO FAUX

FIRST OF ALL, this is another digital drawing. Yes, it’s because I am saving my art supplies until the local store reopens. But it’s still a regression as the paintings were, but not… Continue reading →

ACTIVE LAZINESS

A modern psychomachia or a post-moderm repressive-desublimation The image above (post-career painting #21) looks like a Goya “black painting.” He painted 14 or 15 saturnine murals for himself alone when he was over… Continue reading →

COMMON LAWS

They have common given names, their inherited names are that too. She “took” his as was the custom where they are from, that because their fantasies overlapped. Lust mixed with wishful thinking will… Continue reading →

CAFE A MUSE REVISITED

It’s been a while, since my previous post. I have moved 800 miles away from where I lived for 43 years and it’s taken me three months to even begin to re-settle. I’ve… Continue reading →

NOBLESSE NOT OBLIGED

So here we are in the 21st century recreation of a Victorian era adventurer’s den where our neo-feudal faux-aristocrat enjoys his smuggled Cuban and a fine old Islay. But it’s a virtual reality… Continue reading →

ARS LONGA

“Vita brevis, Ars longa…” so begins the Latin version of an aphorism originally in Greek by Hippocrates, the oath guy. In English it is “Life is short, and art long” The term “art”… Continue reading →

I LOVE YOU… ME NEITHER

Happy [St.] Valentine’s Day. About love: It seems this popular but ill-defined word is best thought of as a continuum of types of affection with lust—and other chemically induced feelings—at one end and… Continue reading →

PUT THE $ BACK IN X-MAS!

I think it good that folks use holidays to reflect on their religion’s founding myths to reassess how they are living up to the standards expressed therein, as long as their subsequent activities… Continue reading →