Hitting The Links: 6/2/24
It's your weekly link roundup, plus my visit to LACMA, where I got into a Richard Serra
Capitol Punishment
No new podcast, but an update from Washington, D.C., more travel plans, art-book progress, and a greyhound sketch
Hitting The Links: 5/26/24
This one's got lots of links, a sleeper, the existential heebie-jeebies, & me looking decent in a suit.
Breakout
A new episode w/Jim Moske on Deaths of Artists, some art of my own, and the possibility of a hiatus
Hitting The Links: 5/19/24
I start the Catskills Fire Tower challenge, escape from the Buñuel-verse, manage not to get bitten by any rattlesnakes, and still bring you a ton of links, so get readin'!
The Dirk of Art
A new podcast with Adam Moss on The Work Of Art, some lines of Dickinson & my silent mornings, a little art, a couple of Instax prints, & more
Hitting The Links: 5/12/24
This one's got a bunch of links, my thoughts on skipping TCAF, a Mother's Day reminder, some workout craziness, and more
Desuccession
This one's got a new ep. on improv & spontaneity, a pan-generational business observation that's probably more about me, a lack of art, & more
Hitting The Links: 5/5/24
This one's got lots of links, a missed photo, some great views, an agility drill, and more
Rites of Spring
Podcastery The photo in Coney Island is the first that James Hamilton ever took This week, I posted Episode 587 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the...
Hitting The Links: 4/28/24
Don’t Quote Me A few hours after I sent out last Wednesday’s email, a couple of funny things happened. First, my brother took my Two Crows anecdote from that...
Two Crows
Podcastery B/W photo by Joseph O’Malley and R. Masseo Davis This week, I posted Episode 586 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the return of author-...
Hitting The Links: 4/21/24
This one's got notes on notepads, book-hunting, Basque cheesecake, a ton of great links, multiple choice Knausgaard, and more
Black Sails and a Missing Rhombus
A new episode about Shakespeare & identity, some accidental beauty on the Hudson, a little art, & more
Hitting The Links: 4/14/24
Lots of links, and the end of the world
Bull, Durham
New episodes with Emily Raboteau & Trillian Stars/Kyle Cassidy, plus my biz-travels to NC, some art & more
Hitting The Links: 4/7/24
This one's got lots of links, a visit to the Antiquarian Book Fair in NYC, and a HOUSEQUAKE
Victory Parade
This one features my new podcast w/Leela Corman, my scattered thoughts on Ed Piskor's death & online mobs, a hint of art, and a hint of a book project. DRAWING BY HO CHE ANDERSON
Hitting The Links: 3/31/24
Rush “It is the only effective use of the second person voice in years,” Salman Rushdie told me. He was talking about a novel, but I missed the title of it,...
Communication Mercantilism
New podcast with Keith Mayerson, missing missives, a little art, & more
Hitting The Links: 3/24/24
XXX I had an exhausting but productive week in NYC: tons of meetings, even more unscheduled conversations, got stood up by one big client, accidentally stood...
Rockstar
2 new podcasts with Edith Hall and Dean Haspiel, the perils of recognition, and a complete lack of art
Hitting The Links: 3/17/24
Some schmoozing at a comics festival, a bonus episode of the podcast, a whole ton of links, an accidental selfie, and more
28 Days Later
A new podcast with David Small, some art, and a 4-week run of birthdays, anniversaries, and a cockroaching greyhound
Hitting The Links: 3/10/24
Making art on the subway, musing on mortality, and giving you all the links you can handle, incl. the bilateral gynandromorphic green honeycreeper
Roulette
This one's got a new episode about Keith Haring with his biographer, my latest oncology check-in/white blood cell roulette, a backyard visitor, and a birthday card.
Hitting The Links: 3/3/24
This one's got the enablers of my postcard-habit, a ton of links, a little health-update, my Blu-Ray plunge, sociopaths & C.H.U.D.s, & more
The Phoning Detective
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 578 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. . . . Gil Roth! No guest this week, so you get me in conversation with some...
Hitting The Links: 2/25/24
A ton of links, my injury/pain catches up with me, Benny flips for sunnybeams, & more!
Every Picture Tells A Story
This one's got a new podcast with Scott Guild about PLASTIC (the novel and the album), my insomnia-withdrawal, some art I've been making, and my father's orchids
Hitting The Links: 2/18/24
In which we go on a snow-filled hike and meet a glove-eating dog, + lots of links, & my seeming recovery
Pain In The Neck
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 576 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. cartoonist Aaron Lange as we talk about AIN’T IT FUN: Peter Laughner & Proto-...
Hitting The Links: 2/11/24
Accounting Archeology Appointment with the accountant tomorrow for 2023 taxes, so I’ve been excavating a pile of 22 months’ worth of bills, bank & credit...
Equanimity
A new podcast on Marcus Aurelius & Stoicism, my brush with equanimity, and my brush with Japanese White-Eye birds
Hitting The Links: 2/4/24
A vision of daffodils, the linking & the dead, working around a broken neck, Karl Ove starts getting essayistic, and more
The Kindly Ones
A new podcast feat. Elizabeth Flock, short thoughts on knowability, & some watercolor birds
Hitting The Links: 1/28/24
The Great Tech Cull, a Rat King of cables & connectors, a Heap of Broken Memories, a ton of links, and potential internal decapitation
Postcards of the Hanging
A new podcast w/David Thomson on TV & The Stream, a postcard evokes Rilkean thoughts on change & stasis, and I draw a crow.
Hitting The Links: 1/21/24
Lots of links, some thoughts on memory and a last date, getting back in the workout routine, recent readings, and a sleeping dog
Ten Years After
In which we post a new podcast w/Sammy Harkham, contemplate the 10th anniversary of a career-jump, and draw Berthe Morisot.
Hitting The Links: 1/14/24
Now Is Next So, THAT was a week. I flew Sunday to SFO, presented at an event Monday, had meetings through Wednesday, flew to LAX that night, thought I’d...
LAX & Relax
Podcastery New podcast w/Ed Subitzky! This week, I posted Episode 571 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the great cartoonist and humorist Ed Subitzky! Ed...
Hitting The Links: 1/7/24
Tons of links, my appointed rounds, some explosive decompression, & more!
The Fray
Podcastery Chris Silverman flanked by two of his #notesArt pieces This week, I posted Episode 570 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. artist Chris Silverman!...
Hitting The Links: 12/31/23
Unfold A peony I drew in June; I'd later ruin it with watercolor, but I do love this I feel like (my? everybody’s?) life is a flower endlessly blooming, a...
Silence & After RESEND
[There was a problem sending this out, so I'm trying again; sorry if you receive it twice!] Podcastery Auguste Préault's roundel Silence, me with a gash &...
Hitting The Links: 12/24/23
New Frontiers Whomp him, Indy “With the uncertainty & moral craziness of some (okay, most) of those platforms, I thought it’d be worthwhile to migrate my...
Guests & Greys
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 568 of The Virtual Memories Show, featuring our annual Guest List show! Seventeen of this year’s podcast-guests tell...
Hitting The Links: 12/17/23
Numbers Game Can I tell you something? It can all get a little Much, no matter what your circumstances are. Job/$$, health, family, pets, art,...
Transient, not Ephemeral
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 567 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the last guest-episode of 2023! Art critic Jarrett Earnest joins me to...