There is a legend that began to grow across the West’s wind-rolling desert hills—as hostile as they are to life. The legend may be a cooperative work of fate as the old cowboys accepted the death of their Old West and the Native tribes accepted the death of so many things. In some ways, the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Hiller Goodspeed, Erin Marranca and I are taking topics weekly (week 1 topic: yesterday) and giving them the attention they need: a 3-page spread in our new zine, Ponderlings. Each week we’re going to make about 20 copies in Portland and Vancouver, BC and display them–prominently and hopefully with large cardboard cut-outs of the three […]
There is a book store in Portland that I frequent with almost alarming frequency. I’m comforted by the fact (or delusion?) that most Portlandians share my obsession with Powell’s. Honestly, I think I know Powell’s three floors, plus that split level that opens onto Couch (pronounced ‘Cooch’…really!) and the coffee shop west of the sci-fi […]
Here are some things I wrote down in my notebook last night–over a beer–and I wanted to share them, for better or worse: Bloating Shapes: post-post-modern techniques for drawing (here I drew a triangle and a square with rounded sides; think triangle/square exploded from inside) She treated him like rain on a rain slicker Birds- […]
I saw/found four perspectives today: 1) A fan that was spinning above and in front of me with a thin post of mirror down the middle that blocked the center but not the fans. In the mirror, another fan was spinning, but in the opposite direction. And the fans tried to find alignment but ended […]
It's a Beautiful Day I Need a Drink 