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Dali in a Sombrero visits me from his ectoplasmic throne in surrealism's cathedral. "Look at my paintings!" he cries, slightly desperate, almost annoyed. "I do, I do look at your paintings!" I reply. Then, silence. A wall of ether mistakes itself for the Grand Canyon. Beyond the rim, no one dares le...

The breath of Andres Serrano whispers across a halo of hallmark. Time, recorded on stationary cardstock, transfers itself from soul to soul. One Botticelian angel French kisses another, or vomits mouth to mouth, or dies in the attempt. Grandmothers cheek to cheek with grandfathers fight the good fig...

Snakes to the sun
where waters run

Bold blue sky
don't ask why

Jump in the painting
and fly.

I remember back in college, I lived in a house with these people who ate only macrobiotic foods. Nothing processed. They were obsessed with the health food store. They also stayed up all weekend dropping acid. What a riot! Too funny. Druggies eating health food. This had me chuckling because I coul...

Speaking of druggies, Burroughs how did he eat I wonder? He must have taken care of himself to live to be so old. Or just luck. I once had the good fortune of eating dinner at Burroughs' house in Lawrence, KS (with 5 or 6 other people). Burroughs hadn't taken a liking to me because I'd expressed re...

Have you all seen the new US gov't defined food pyramid? http://www.mypyramid.gov/ One of the silliest (or ignorant, take your pick) things about this is the fact that this new set of guidelines is only on the internet at the above noted site. So, if you're poor, or don't have access to a computer, ...

Black smoke sez no Pope No Pope No Pope! We can only hope the next satin clad dope will have some volition and break with tradition and with another man elope commit sodomy from top to bottomy in the Vatican religious ashcan ban the clan! be sure it's a man suck and gather end the blather religious ...

"Blind dates sure do suck!"

Camille Paglia recently published a new book of criticism, "Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems". Salon.com conducts a very interesting interview with her (unfortunately, salon is a subscriber site which, though I find it worthwhile, costs $30 a year, I thin...

Just in case anybody didn't hear, Robert Creeley has died. From the NYTimes April 1, 2005 Robert Creeley, 78, Groundbreaking Poet, Dies By DINITIA SMITH Robert Creeley, who helped transform postwar American poetry by making it more conversational and emotionally direct, died on Wednesday in Odessa, ...

Andy Goldsworthy has a new sculpture/installation, this one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2005/mar/goldsworthy/domes300.jpg You can check out an article, and view a slide show of how it was created, here: http://www.npr.org/templates/...