You ever have that thing where you’ve got two computers in front of you (like you’re backing up your wife’s laptop, or there’s an old LCII you couldn’t bear to throw away?) and you’re using the mouse or trackpad on your computer and the screensaver shot on the other background one catches your eye? […]
Once in a while, real life unfortunately intrudes on my attempts to sequester myself in the narcoleptic delights of the web. There I was, caught in a delicious prevarication between bidding for a limited edition 1960s TV C-list supporting actor bobblehead (Route 66’s Linc Case as played by Glenn Corbett; wi-fi connected by electronic chip […]
And so Robert Rauschenberg is dead. He’s gone off to that great artist’s colony in the sky; where John Cage plays an eternally-long composition in the lounge, Mark Rothko paints gradations of blue skyscapes on the cosmic canvas, Clyfford Still terraforms the clouds, and Jackson Pollock wraps yet another of an infinite number of cars […]
Something strange is happening again in the world (d-uh) and I don’t know what it is and I’m a little scared. Last Saturday night I sat in a packed movie theater with what I can only call a bunch of strangers, and they laughed and gasped and applauded as Marvel Comics’ first self-financed film Iron […]
Our tiny plane flew in below radar off the southern coast of Nigeria, darting up the delta rivers that claw into the state of Bayelsa like an angry sea god’s hand. I could almost see the dark faces of the drill monkeys as they scattered, chattering, beneath our Cessna’s wings as it clipped the treetops. […]