I’ve been to the Experience Music Project only once before and with a very specific goal in mind: see Ernie. The EMP was having a Muppets retrospective. There was a lot of cool early Jim Hensen artwork and two things that made me surprisingly emotional — Ernie and Cookie Monster. They were big and they …
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I know lots of people who hate zoos, won’t visit them, no way, no how. I am ambivalent. It is exciting to be able to get a good close look at animals that most people never see outside their television. But it is also hard to look at the critters and consider where they “should” …
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Liu Xiadong‘s paintings are modern — meaning they are of this time — and they look Western to me. The thick application of the paint, the rough expressive brush work, it’s the legacy of painters like John Singer Sergeant or the California school painters, some of whom taught my teachers. Painters like David Park and …
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“I need to write something about people being nice to me while I travel.” “You should write about Sock Monkey.” “Oh, that was awesome, wasn’t it? I like thinking about him in the co-pilot’s seat, traveling across the Outback with the mail. The pilot saying (in his Aussie drawl), “Sorry, this is just a drop …
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While staying in Talkeetna, I had to get up stupidly early for a media breakfast. But when I looked out the window at 5:45 am, getting up that early seemed very smart indeed.
I was a bit flustered when, on the last day of class this year’s Book Passage writer’s conference, one of the participants asked where they could get work published. See, I lost three of my regular markets this year. Oh, WAIT! Heads up! This is chock full of insider-y that could bore or annoy you. …
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