Thinking

If The History of Spring...

“But time is tied to the wrist

Apr 30 •

Sleeping in Concert

Integral to the concert hall is to be in the presence of sweet drifts of sleep.

Mar 29 •

Brief Note on the Satanic Portal on 23rd Street

For some reason Madison Square Park always gets satanic pieces of public art that serves as taunts at or challenges to that very public, to which I…

May 14, 2024 •

Review of P. F. Chang’s in Union Square

My brother and I saw the imperial horse wrapped in its plastic and styrofoam, in the summer of 2021.

Mar 29, 2024 •

Oops! All Darlings

Dynamite stylist and American gem Ernest Hemingway apparently said somewhere, “Kill your darlings” as a piece of writing advice, and ever since its been…

Jan 28, 2024 •

Wheatfield with crows (July 1890)

I am writing again about Vincent Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with crows (July 1890) because it popped up (I was looking through an art book and then I saw it…

Apr 14, 2023 •

On Spinoza’s Concept of Love

For three months three Octobers ago I had decided I wanted to be a Spinoza guy.

Mar 24, 2023 •

On the Role of Anticipation in the Experience a Work of Art

Richard Strauss wrote Eine Alpensinfonie over four years, a triumph of realism that depicts 11 hours trudging a wide flank of the Alps in just above an…

Mar 4, 2023 •

The Titanic, the Blockbuster Film and its Wreck

As I write this, from the other side, I question the aphorisms of love.

Feb 25, 2023 •

How to Eat Meat

I come from a long line of fraudulent eaters.

Feb 10, 2023 •

Windows And Nudes: Edward Hopper at the Whitney

Going to see the city’s solitude, Annie and I ran into six people we knew.

Jan 21, 2023 •

We stopped in Fishkill, NY on the way and ate at the Tomato Cafe, me in direct sunlight because the umbrella was immovable in its concrete shoe.

Oct 18, 2022 •

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