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...
Eye Warning, CATastrophic Attention Spans, and Dali Dolly Redux
New Art. CAT-astrophic Attention Span (a story). <br /> The C-A-T with A-D-D. Life In The Deficit Column (A Moral… | by aleXander hirka | Medium Life In The...