For those who live in, or visit, Texas:

I feel compelled to share my obsession with a place, or rather a cluster of places, that is absofuckinlutely sacred to me--The Menil enclave in Houston’s museum district.

The jewel is the Menil Museum itself.  Granted, I have a museum fetish, and have spent a good slice of my life in museums around ( Read more... )

Yes, it's cold. Colder than Joan Allen's tit in The Crucible. So tonight, I will make hot passionate DURAFLAME love in my fireplace. Burning love. Oh. Yeah. Smores before. Fondue for after. Reunitie on ice (that's nice). Faux-fleece animal print throw blanket. Rawrrr. K-tel Dimensions on the hi-fi. Phone off the hook. Me and Brooke Shields ( Read more... )

HAPPY BODHI DAY!

December 8--Recognizing Buddha's Enlightenment and Revelation of the Four Noble Truths

These two photos from 8falling8star8 prompted this poem

Awake

Warm crouched silently ( Read more... )

Goddamit  Ani...  I tried to end a comment to the last entry with a quote from Ani Difranco, but now her words, and her voice, won’t   let    me      go.     The song is Dilate.  Listen to it.

Every song has a you
A you that the singer sings to
And you’re it this time
Baby, you’re it this time

Do you have an “audience” in mind when you update ( Read more... )

I found this poem the other day, and was struck by the irony.  I wrote it years ago about a turning point.

For many years I had faithfully journaled.  For me it was essential, not only to growth, but to sanity as well.  Like many, I filled it with a variety of thoughts: some that I chose to share, and others that I adamantly kept private.  ( Read more... )

They say you’re as old, or as young, as you feel.  As usual, they don’t know shit.

I feel full of life, youth, vim and vigor, but the fact that I would use archaic words like vim and vigor just go to show that I am old.  But when I want to really have fun with this I spout the urbanspeak, or the kidslang.  The teens look askance; shake their ( Read more... )

Out with the old“Mildly Amusing Existential Crisis,” and in with the new.  Both amused.  The former was inspired by a bit too much recently read Sartre and Camus.  Then there was this website.  Depressing, or highlarious?   Too many people associate existentialism with nihilism.  The difference is more than just the fact that anything French is so ( Read more... )

Last week I speculated about a purely hypothetical scenario wherein a radical leftist contemplates dating a hot radical hot rightist.   hot.

Instead of getting together to unite the divide in our country today, Lefty mentioned how Thanksgiving with family is great, but of course let “slip” that being the progressive in a family of conservatives ( Read more... )

Here's a sampling of some paintings that I've done. Most of them hang in my house, or in the homes of friends. This is my first attempt to get them online. The picture quality isn't that great, but you get the basic idea. Curious to see what peeps think about em...

Paintings!