Musical Interlude — January 2023
Starting the new year off with some music. One of my favorite rabbit holes to fall into on the internet is YouTube — taking leaps and bounds to explore as...
Wrapping Up 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR! "That's why I can't say enough times, whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or provide, every temporary...
The Reason for the Season
Something for Everyone On Your List. This piece includes the Dissertations of the Elves. <br /> The Reason For The Season. Something for Everyone On Your...
LXXI Secial Edition • 12/22/2022
At 8:31 a.m. —71 years ago today — I was born at Bellevue Hospital, NYC. The rest is hysterical. A video self-portrait from last year when I turned LXX (70)...
NOT Overheard in New York City
NOT Overheard in New York City in December Part One: The first 10 of 31 — Listen to things unsaid. <br /> 31 Things Not Overheard (1 of 3). December 2022 —...
If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out . . .
This is the 87th edition of this newsletter.(Out of 85 subscribers — about 40-50 open the email every week—with a handful or two clicking/reading/listening...
Angels In The Bronx
During this visit to Woodlawn Cemetery, I began noticing the angels that were everywhere we went. They seemed quite comfortable with my photographing them....
Trees Among The Dead and Living
"If a tree grows in a cemetery . . ." — Zĕna Kōan <br /> Tree Magic In The Bronx. Splendor In The Cemetery | by aleXander hirka | Weeds & Wildflowers | Nov,...
Harshing The Holiday Mellow — (A Special Edition)
Siri, please take the holidays off the calendar. Harshing The Holiday Mellow (A Whimsical Environmental Diatribe) The Triumph of Consumerism <br /> Triumph...
COVID Comes To The Anomalous Duo
Where Did This Week Go?It began with a sore throat last Sunday evening—having to suppress coughs at the Bach Vespers we attended at Trinity Lutheran...
What are they selling at the Veterans Day Sale?
<br /> Friendly Fire - by AleXander Hirka - AleXanderHirka Coming From Behind and Inside </div>
Some Things For The Ladies
<br /> Get off yer Lysistrata, Ladies!. There Are Men To Wake Up, Wars To End | by aleXander hirka | Nov, 2022 | Medium There Are Men To Wake Up, Wars To End...
Just like real life, but different.
<br /> The Cartoon States Of America. So Good At Keeping it Unreal | by aleXander hirka | Rainbow Salad | Oct, 2022 | Medium So Good At Keeping it Unreal </div>
Special Video Extravaganza Edition
Thank you all who have taken the time to read my stories and essays, and enjoy some of the art/videos. Please consider responding to this newsletter in an...
Listen To The Old Folks
We may end up with no Medicare at all before there is a single-payer Medicare-For-All.Some observations and links to more detailed reading. <br /> Taking...
Observations in New York City
Under, Over, All Around Autumn Dispersals a poem of sorts <br /> Under, Over, All Around. Autumn Dispersals | by aleXander hirka | Rainbow Salad | Medium...
Video Entertainment
Somewhere in the 1980s, while corresponding with people all around the planet via the Mail-Art Network, I worked on music (of sorts) with my then-partner...
Falling Into Autumn
In 2011 I put together a CD compilation of songs around themes related to autumn—a collection called September. Click on image for details. It was a passing-...
Where Was I?
Photo of Empyrean Temple during a dust storm at Burning Man 2022. What I won't be doing in November. It's about voting—not opinions on the issues. Don't...
Back In The Default World - A Brief Hello
Burning Man this time (My 14th, Tammy's 8th) was a very difficult experience - with smatterings of truly magical moments. The daily temperatures of over 100...
See You In September
A Burning Man patch embroidered by my daughter more than a handful of years ago. I just added notch fourteen as I head out the door. In 2019, as I prepared...
HERE IT IS
THE ART— on Behance <br /> “I Can’t Wake Up (Looking for One Honest Man)” on Behance </div> THE META-STORY — on Medium <br /> I Can’t Wake Up. Searching For...
ArT, HoPe, mOiSt, & sLeEp
Welcome to the two new subscribers to this newsletter this week! "I Can't Wake Up (Looking For One Honest Man)" Sneak preview of my artwork created for...
Free. You Won't See It On Netflix.
One recent reviewer called it a "superb cinematic bonbon — sweet, tart, sexy and thought provoking". A number of people responded to say they do not have any...
Both Ends Burning Towards The Fire
Back to the desert . . . This Ain't No Connie Francis V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N <br /> This Ain’t No Connie Francis V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N | by aleXander hirka | Counter Arts...
WHO WAS/IS YOUR DREAMBOAT CRUSH?
Last week in this newsletter I offered a free DVD copy of the movie I made in 1994. — MOIST Redux. 85 subscribers to this newsletter.53 people opened last...
MOIST (Wanna Get?)
In 1994, at age 43, artist AleXander Hirka adapted his skills of creating visual collages – the putting together of diverse elements to create a new work –...
Opiate of The Masses — Patriotism [Special Edition]
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” — Clarence Darrow An Autopsy of Patriotism — Dissecting the Guts of the 4th of...
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
Traveling Shoes In Pictures, Quotes, and Songs. <br /> If The Shoe Fits, Wear It (Subway Stylin’) | by aleXander hirka | Counter Arts | Medium All God’s...
Pride Edition — NSFP (Not Safe For Prudes)
Come out, come out — whoever and whatever you are! Each coming out is a one of a kind story. Tell yours — it may help someone open the door to tell theirs....
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Vote for Art & Life
The mailbox is filling up with glossy color campaign flyers. The Red & Blue teams rev up for the super-bowl of elections — Empire Grab 2024. The Season of...
Piano Heaven Above Houndog Hades
Greetings readers...A special heartfelt thank you to 7/85 who the analytics indicate took time from their busy lives to read something from last week's...
Various Flavors of Dissent
"In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn’t have any effect.” — Paul Goodman Readers on Medium have called this piece "excellent' and...
The Art Life, The Dogs Life (in NYC)
"On Jerry's Wings" My homage to photo-montage artist Jerry Uelsmann.Created on 10 October 2015.It was built upon some of his works. Mr. Uelsmann passed away...
A Bird, a Doll, and Some Goslings
A bird's eye view. (A brand new short story.) <br /> Flight, Interrupted. A Bird’s Eye View | by aleXander hirka | Medium A Bird’s Eye View </div> A doll's...
Wild Life in the City
No Roar . . . No Smell . . . All Awe! They're everywhere! A photo essay! <br /> Wild Beasts In Manhattan. An Urban Safari (Still Life) | by aleXander hirka |...
Women. Artists. Activists. Mothers. — April and May
Celebrating April and May . . . 15 April 2019A woman artist hangs out her political laundry. A very short story. <br /> Tenement Testament. Heliocentric...
Remember the Pandemic?
April 2020."There’s a horror movie playing outside on the big screen. They’ve locked the theater doors so we’re in here for the duration. Even the ticket...
Bring Your Own Popcorn (Reality, Virtual and Otherwise. Now Showing)
Oops. I missed my weekly newsletter deadline. But here it is — a few days late. Hope your clicks herein are rewarded with inspiration. Health report. The...
Going Back To Look At The Future
Healing in the present. Three pieces of speculative (science) fiction from the past. Through Alien Eyes. 8 May 2021 <br /> Just Look At Them. Aliens on Zoom...
War And Sex And War (Including A History With Songs)
Health Update Realizing that even though the "I" writing this wasn't present at the surgery (due to anesthesia) — this body I live in very much was. We are...
Read Me For A Swift Recovery [A Special Edition]
Tomorrow — 7 April 2022 — in lieu of thoughts, prayers, wishes, or flowers . . . Please READ one of my stories or essays on Medium. Most take only a few...
Thoughts, Prayers, and Supplications to Lady Luck (Please)
Under The Knife Next Thursday 7 April 2022 will be my second-ever surgery. (The other, a vasectomy, half a lifetime ago, barely counts — that was merely an...
Famous People, Superheroes, and Peace
For your consideration. . . If you enjoy my written pieces — as well as those of my life/art partner Tammy Remington — and the thousands of other writers on...
Even Writers Have To Sleep
Where famous writers lived in Manhattan —along with some of their words. A tour. <br /> Writers Slept Here. And Then Poured Words Onto The Page | by...
Listen . . . Read . . . Pay Attention
Lend Me Your Ears for some Amazing Music! Take them in. Implant them in your DNA.If indeed we go out in a flash of light, more fragments of this magic stuff...
It's boring.
"Niños. I've seen so many of them grow up. Other people look at the children and they all imagine a new world. But me, when I watch them, I just see the same...
Everything Is Numbered
Do you want your thoughts provoked with something besides the insanities of the current military madness?Consider this . . .There are things you can count on...
Never Discuss Politics Or Religion (Special Edition)
OK, I'll skip the religion. But here are some politics for a Sunday morning as the USofA is doing that little-boy-gotta-pee-gotta-go-to-war dance they did...