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Communication Mercantilism
March 27, 2024
New podcast with Keith Mayerson, missing missives, a little art, & more
Hitting The Links: 3/24/24
March 24, 2024
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
March 20, 2024
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
March 17, 2024
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
March 13, 2024
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
March 10, 2024
Making art on the subway, musing on mortality, and giving you all the links you can handle, incl. the bilateral gynandromorphic green honeycreeper
Roulette
March 6, 2024
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
March 3, 2024
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
February 28, 2024
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
February 25, 2024
A ton of links, my injury/pain catches up with me, Benny flips for sunnybeams, & more!
Every Picture Tells A Story
February 21, 2024
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
February 18, 2024
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
February 14, 2024
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
February 11, 2024
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
February 7, 2024
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
February 4, 2024
A vision of daffodils, the linking & the dead, working around a broken neck, Karl Ove starts getting essayistic, and more
The Kindly Ones
January 31, 2024
A new podcast feat. Elizabeth Flock, short thoughts on knowability, & some watercolor birds
Hitting The Links: 1/28/24
January 28, 2024
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
January 24, 2024
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
January 21, 2024
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
January 17, 2024
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
January 14, 2024
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
January 11, 2024
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
January 7, 2024
Tons of links, my appointed rounds, some explosive decompression, & more!
The Fray
January 3, 2024
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
December 31, 2023
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
December 29, 2023
[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
December 24, 2023
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
December 20, 2023
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
December 17, 2023
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
December 13, 2023
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...
Hitting The Links: 12/10/23
December 10, 2023
Gates of Heck It was a tiring week, but at least the podcast I had scheduled for today had to postpone to next weekend, so I can ‘relax’ (and just get in 2...
Strange Currencies
December 6, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 566 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. poet Christian Wiman as we celebrate his amazing new book, ZERO AT THE BONE:...
Hitting The Links: 12/3/23
December 3, 2023
Rabbi, Poet, Psycho-Man “It is not required of you that you complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”—Rabbi Tarfon, quote by Harold...
Minimal Wage
November 29, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 565 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. writer & editor Danny Fingeroth as we celebrate his new biography, JACK RUBY:...
Hitting The Links: 11/26/23
November 26, 2023
Either/Oar I was writing my daily postcard on Friday, when it occurred to me that it was 20 years since I semi-celebrated Thanksgiving in New Zealand. I had...
Thanks
November 22, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 564 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. cartoonist & editor Matt Bors. With The Nib, Matt helped build an online (and...
Hitting The Links: 11/19/23
November 19, 2023
Priors Authorization I didn’t tell him about my dream. That night, sleepless and feverish, as I began to come down with what I hope is just a cold, I had a...
Like It's 1999
November 15, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 563 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. master essayist Phillip Lopate in a conversation about his new collection, A...
Hitting The Links: 11/12/23
November 12, 2023
Lest We Forget GIL: Are you prepared for the first anniversary of Diane’s death? I’m one of those date-fixated people.BILL: It’s not of great importance to...
Mr. President
November 8, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 562 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the return of cartoonist Leslie Stein. With her wonderful, hilarious &...
Hitting The Links: 11/5/23
November 5, 2023
Unitard I got to record with Phillip Lopate yesterday. That episode will air in a few weeks — in the meantime GO READ his new essay collection, A Year And A...
Analog Digital
November 1, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 561 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with cartoonist Josh Bayer. With his new graphic novel/memoir,...
Hitting The Links: 10/29/23
October 29, 2023
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down We made it back safe & sound from Barcelona on Friday, then spent Saturday in Princeton where I hosted a talk with Patrick...
The Secret Sharer
October 25, 2023
Keeping up appearances I’ll be interviewing Patrick McDonnell about his new book, The Super Hero’s Journey (Abrams ComicArts), at a live event on Oct. 28 at...
Hitting The Links: 10/22/23
October 22, 2023
He’s from Barcelona I’m in Barcelona for a trade show this week. We got in yesterday morning, waited ~45 minutes on line at passport control, and got to our...
The Analog Desk
October 18, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 559 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with Lisa Morton as we celebrate spooky season & the release of...
Hitting The Links: 10/15/23
October 15, 2023
High Potency I was Dearborn, MI on Thursday & Friday for a client meeting about patient-centricity in drug development & manufacturing. It was a good event,...
OMFG JUBILEE STREET
October 11, 2023
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 558 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes about his amazing,...
Hitting The Links: 10/8/23
October 8, 2023
Intro Something weird happened at my pharma conference last Thursday-Friday: nothing weird happened. I mean, I know I over-plan, micromanage and stress the...
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