A Year in Reading

We watch very little television, save for the daily block of news punditry on MSNBC, some History Channel programming, Masterpiece Mystery and Masterpiece Theatre on PBS, and an occasional movie on Turner Classic Movies; the gaps in our hours for idle entertainment are, of course, taken up with reading. 2010 began with a lot of [...]

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 [...]

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 Violet

  UPDATED: 11/21, 12:53 AM “There are more things under the sun, Horatio …” As of 10:30 PM PST I completed the final edits and revisions of the third part of the New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun; the good news is that I am actually glad the series is over … until [...]

Alternative Mathematics

“Popescu began to talk about a Romanian mathematician who lived from 1865 to 1936, a man who spent the last twenty years of his life devoted to the search for some ‘mysterious numbers’ hidden in a part of the vast landscape visible to man, though the numbers themselves were invisible and could live between rocks [...]