THE UTILITY of CANON-CROSSING, NON-LOCAL, ANTI-ETHNOCENTRIC INFLUENCES

Recent generations of would-be artists and writers appear, almost without deviation, to seek reassurance and confirmation in the super-familiar (as though they’re all peering into the same tiny mirror at the same time)…  whereas perhaps an unlimited taste for the unknown, unexpected and uncanny might provide more interesting results…?   Continue reading THE UTILITY of CANON-CROSSING, NON-LOCAL, ANTI-ETHNOCENTRIC INFLUENCES

RESISTANCE-IN-JOY: APPRECIATIONS (episode one)

  Offspring invited a chum over yesterday so I decided to take a walking fast (it was already slightly after one in the afternoon and I hadn’t yet eaten) because I like to give Offsprung her space; Beloved Wife was out rehearsing. I take walking fasts when the schedule and weather permit and these fasts, coupled with eschewing day-glo pseudo-food feedbag toxins, keep me vital. No alcohol. It’s just not good for you, chum. Is the weed? I don’t know enough about that to comment. I can still run up a flight of stairs, to catch a train,  with a thirty-pound … Continue reading RESISTANCE-IN-JOY: APPRECIATIONS (episode one)