2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 43,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]

2010: Year in Review

This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]

Witness L.A. Pays Witness Again

A few days ago I updated my friend Celeste Fremon on the latest and she, in kind, updated the rest of the L.A. community who frequent her well-worth-reading web presence. Celeste is a damn fine journalist, scholar, and journalism instructor and is a recognized, passionate advocate for social justice, so her interest in my story should come as no surprise [...]

The Myth of the Starving Artist

  If you are a frequent reader of this blog and my work elsewhere, chances are pretty good that you are personally acquainted with someone who makes their living in the creative sector: writers, painters, commercial and graphic artists, actors, dancers, musicians of all stripe, architects, sculptors; in short, anyone who earns a living from [...]

Journaliste Sombre

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”  ~~~ Abraham Lincoln “The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.”  ~~~ Herbert Samuel SECOND UPDATE BELOW: 11/27/10, 7:47 PM The right turn of a phrase, short and succinct, can convey more than a thousand [...]