"Press Button for Quick Service”
Eleven years ago, on our way to the Burning Man event, we stopped in Reno, Nevada, to do a Performance Art piece. “Press Button for Quick Service”. A...
Reefer and Other Madness
This playful new photo essay was published in Counter Arts today at 4:20 GMT. (Thanks, Sadie!) So. . .Light up a “j” and we’ll be on our way. Or eat up that...
Food and "Democracy"
If you live in New York — or are planning a visit — you will surely want to know about these fine dining establishments.Come along with me on a tour. Bon...
Talkin’ Old Man Blues'n'Views
Get Me While I'm Here Since 2016, I — writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, and curmudgeon — have published over 300 short stories and essays on...
The Power of Music and the Noise of Power
A truly amazing concert last night at Lincoln Center. 4 minute sample. First, the Rajasthani folk group SAZ. Next, Vinayakram family — featuring legendary...
July 2 and July 4
JULY 2 Letters to my mother, written by me (and my girlfriend Gail), in 1970-1971, bundled up and hung at the Temple at Burning Man in 2017. They were burned...
PREJUDICE
PREJUDICE The chickens have come to roost on the ass (donkey). The Democratic Party who weaseled in Biden when Bernie Sanders was rising (thanks, Obama!) —...
PRIDE
👍 PRIDE 👍 Some art I designed in the past for the B in LGBTQ+.SwitchKissers Magazine — Montreal, Canada Spring 2000 — Front cover art by AleXander Hirka....
The Sense of An Ending
There are two books in the past that I read and had the need to re-read immediately upon completion. One was “Against The Day’ by Thomas Pynchon. At 1085...
Hole Or Soul (klaatu barada nikto)
Written some years ago. Thoroughly revised recently.Just published on Medium/Rainbow Salad. “Hole vs “Soul: Pseudonyms for The Emptiness”Two minute read....
All Aboard!
I wrote a piece a few years ago — a brief sketch of a ride of the subway.I recently looked at it, found it seriously wanting, so I hopped on the subway again...
SH*TS & GIGGLES - DARKNESS & LIGHT
As I drink my coffee on the morning after “Memorial Day” — military jets in flyover maneuvers vomit that sound of threatened violence in the sky over New...
His Bobness and the Truthteller
Happy completion of 83 spins around the sun to Bob Dylan. I am very grateful that his amazing work has coincided with my visit to the planet. I have followed...
Revelations Or More Camouflage?
If you’ve read some or all of the six episodes of my series “Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank” you will surely want to know the background as to how...
"Arise, then, women of this day!"
Julia Ward Howe (1879) — “Say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with...
Choo’n Gum and other Gnawables
A new four minute “short story”. See if you can read it, chew gum, and sing along at the same time. Choo’n Gum. Of Course He Spilled The Beans. | by...
We Are Stardust
Tomorrow will be one month since I shared with you Part Five of my series Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank. The writing has been slow but Part Six: We...
Satire, Music, and Intactitude
Welcome to this week's Tempest Tossed Stardust newsletter. Let's begin with fifteen minutes of beautiful music by Frédéric Chopin (1829-1847), accompanied by...
Bang Bang
This is the 147th edition of this newsletter which I began two years ago this week.Here's the link to the fifth installment of my "Withdrawing Fables From...
Flooded with Memories
I am currently working on the fifth installment of my "Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank" short stories. Being a fictional account of events from the...