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The Art School Student

composition with train

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city structures 4

biomorphic bathwater number 5

umbrella

social contract

phenomenon of transport 2

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city structures 1

city structures 3

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biomorphic bathwater number 4

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what you don’t know

Vintage Fam-Maternal

The Author with His So-So Paintings in the ’80s

THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY

ITHACA

EUMAEUS

NAUSICAA

OXEN of the SUN

WANDERING ROCKS

LESTRYGONIANS

CALYPSO

TELEMACHUS

AEOLUS

the author in high school, looming behind two other figures from this recollection

3″ x 5″ acrylic on masonite-1995

3′ x 5′, acrylic on canvas

portrait of sonja, 4’x5′, acrylic on canvas. the humanoid figure in the upper left, with the sphere for a head, is my reading a poem to sonja. sonja’s face is red, her left arm is raised, her boobs are huge and their actual size

See? I’m not one of those guys who braggingly exaggerates the beauty of the women he nearly slept with

painting i did to allegorize the situation with “aria tanner”: The Excellent Taste of Our Benefactors: 4′ x 5′, acrylic on canvas, a black-faced, red-haired angel is breastfeeding a kneeling woman (my ex, in fact) in a garden, during an eclipse

The Art School student I cheated on with “Virginia” (to her left is an upside-down portrait of her as her own mother)

Photo of unfinished version of portrait of the New Wave hairdresser I cheated on with The Girl with the Greek Name (meaning Knowledge)

ONE of my paintings, of one of My Lovers (acrylic on canvas, c, 3’x 2′) from when I was a Cheater

AHT UND ITS PREROGATIVES AND YOU POST-MODERNISTS THINK YOU'RE HOT AUDIO-ARTERY AUDIOBIOGRAPHY AUGBooks AUTHENTIC FICTIONS AUTHORTECH BAD TASTE BECAUSE THEY SAY WHO'S SMART AND WHO ISN'T BITS and BLOBS BITTER LAUGHS BLOOMSDAZE BROTHERLAND MIRACLES CHEAP 'N PAINLESS LESSONS IN WRITING COLLECTION CORPSE-GREEN CAT SHIT CRITIQUING THE CRITIQUING CRUSH THIS MEME DISNEY SYNDROME DUMB AS A RUBBER LADDER E-Pistle EDUCATED SCIENCE FAN SUPPORTS RATIONAL TIN-FOIL-HATTERY ELEPHANT IN THE ELEVATOR EXPERIMENTAL MIND-MOVIE FAILED STATE OF THE ART Fanonian Civil War ballad FICTITIOUS FICTIONS FIGHT THE STUPID from the DEPT of I SHIT YOU NOT FUCKING SHIT I REALLY REALLY HATE GENUINE ART AS HEROISM GERMANTOWN the novel GET OFF MY GRUMPY OLD LAWN GOAT BRAIN grand old liberal racism HEGEMONY'S REPUTATIONS higher irony HIGH QUACKERY HUXLEY ORWELL INC HUXWELLIAN IDIOCIES OF A PREVIOUS ME IMPERIAL HAIKU IMPERIAL POSTER IMPERIAL REVIEWER IMPERIAL STREET ART INSECTS MASQUERADING AS HUMANITY INTELLECTUAL LIVES MATTER IN WHICH I AM MY VERY OWN LISH it's okay, kids, i'm black JUSTICE-AS-RAPE-TRICK KOAN PONE KOOTCHIE TOWERS KWIKEEZE letters letters to ET LIZARD BRAIN MEME-NOIRS MINING the WHAT-THE-FUCKIUM MISSIVE 2 AMERIKA MURKKA NEOMANIA NO LOGIC NO JUSTICE novellas novels i'm putting out there novels i am keeping for myself, largely obituary letter ORSON HUXWELL'S PLAGUE SPRING REVUE PASTOR PRIME PCBS PHILOSOPHICAL MINUTE po-uh-tree POPAGENDA Pronoun Clowns PSYCHOPATHY MASQUERADING AS POLITICS pure but sexy RANCID ULTRA-CACK REQUIRED READING RESISTANCE-IN-JOY SATIRIZING the UNSATIRIZABLE SFX MASQUERADING AS MUSIC SHIT LIT songs from others SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE AUGUSTINIAN ARCHIVES SPIN FOR KIDDIES STRANGE BUT TRUE SUPERIOR LIT TASED BY TRUTH THE BOMB COLLECTOR the lash or the cuddle: reviews The Late Epiphany THE OCCASIONAL FRIPPERY THE OVER-CHIMP THE SHORTS THE STENCH OF THE NORMAL the teleological null-point THE UNSETTLING THE VELVETEEN GULAG THE WAR ON TALENT THINKING TO THE NTH ON THE TOPIC TISC TORTURE MASQUERADING AS PORN TRAILER-TRASHING Uncategorized USEFUL TOOLS VIDEOBITS VINTAGE AUGUSTINIANA WE ACTUALLY DON'T HATE THIS AT ALL WEBBY TITTERS well i didn't see THAT coming WIFENESS ZERO TASTE

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