Monthly Archives: May 2006

So I was thinking about Dali, and art writing, and this sort of vague itch I’d had to write about paranoiac-criticism, possibly in hopes that other people could be as confused as I was. But when I sat down to organize my thoughts about Dali, and trying to write for this hypothetical audience in my […]

Art writing

Something occurred to me t’other day, as I was plowing through Mary Roach’s non-fiction book “Spook.” There is much clever and entertaining non-fiction out there, in a variety of fields. There is clever and entertaining science writing, from such soft stuff as Roach’s up through heights of Sagan and Gould and Dawkins. There is clever […]

Three and a half weeks to Anthrocon. I dug out my box of prints, my three ring print binders, gazed at the printer and intoned “It….begins.” This is the time of year when I truly, truly hate being such a prolific artist. It has many great perks, but the price really starts to add up […]

My husband’s nuts. I went in to the den and discovered him and a co-worker, sitting glaze-eyed, watching TV. They had the sound turned off, and a Secret Chiefs 3 album plugged in. This is a fairly dark, brooding instrumental sound, fine and good. However, they were watching what I’d been watching a few minutes […]