Impossible Kisses

Someone must have said that a girl stops playing with dolls when she becomes her own doll. When she starts dressing and posing herself. Whe...

The day I take my life away I won’t lock it in a jar With spider eggs and a lizard’s leg And a hand-turned copper bar. Make no mistake on th...

Wayne Thiebaud, “Café Rose,” 1962, oil on canvas The Weird Fact And The Big Romance

Now that’s a guitar with a lot of switches and knobs. Last month I wrote about how I like electric guitars that keep things simple. [ Knob...

I was still in what I call a fragmentary stage. I had a series of fragments. That’s not a good state to be in because you feel fragmented in...

Will Barnet, ‘Soft Boiled Eggs,’ 1946, Oil on canvas The idea was to experience physical aspects of forms behind a table, under a table, on ...

Last week Zürich, Switzerland, hosted a medium-sized women’s tennis tournament, the Zürich Open . The number one player in the world, Justi...

“Look, I’m afraid I’m a little jaded in the romance department. The only thing I know about relationships is that someone usually winds up ...

I hope the paranoid nuts are correct believing in a government project in progress at Montauk that can bend space. If it is real there alway...

Basic Phonemes Animating speech can be one of the most difficult tasks in animation; the process of matching the mouth-movements of your ani...

Who are these children Who scheme and run wild Who speak with their wings And the way that they smile What are the secrets They trace in the...

In ITV's new version of 'Frankenstein,' the pioneering scientist is a woman who treats the Monster like a child. Gerard Gilbert ...

The Wednesday before last I posted a short monologue from a story I’m working on. The story probably will be called “The Skeleton From The...

When I was in school, our school library stocked only one ‘art’ magazine, American Artist . Local bookstores also carried The Artist . The...

Okay. Today’s post is a little screwed up. Today’s post was supposed to be a kind of part one/part two thing with tomorrow’s post. It still...

So here we are two episodes into season seven and suddenly we discover that somewhere back in the chronology of season six Lex cloned Lana....

Recently I’ve been thinking about cool old things versus cool modern things. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about binoculars and telescop...

Knock, knock! Who’s there? ‘Boozing Angelina Collapses!’ ‘Boozing Angelina Collapses!’ who? ‘Boozing Angelina Collapses!’ And a thousand vio...

So a few years ago my friend Derrick went to Los Angeles to make it as a screenwriter. He didn’t even last two years out there. He came ba...

Almost every group of young friends sooner or later will spend some time voting among themselves, deciding who is most-likely-to-succeed, wh...