What is “meaning”? And do art and “creativity” necessarily have anything to do with each other? The S&R staff has a backstage email list and, as noted before, sometimes what goes on […]
Scrogues Converse: art, creativity and meaning
A doll house
Childhood is a complex thing. Depictions and memories of childhood … even moreso. I’ve been working on this series for two or three weeks now. In doing so I’ve thought about the […]
#SharingSaturday #SharingForAFriend
See a friend creating or otherwise in need of a signal boost? Give it! I have a great idea. No, really. I know it’s me, but this is great. I don’t pat […]
How to knit a cell phone
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft stores…. There are no roses for us but the ones we make from Japanese paper made in China, by the way, that we buy in vast retail […]
N-bombs in American cultural treasures
Huck Finn and Harper Lee in the crosshairs Fox reports (yeah, yeah, I know): Minnesota school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn from required reading due to n-word. “It’s wrong. There […]
Nakano laundromat
Continuing my S&R Tokyo Series… At a small laundromat in Tokyo I loitered outside to see how people go. They were slow. It was November and they were slow. But in Tokyo […]
In defense of Coyote
Perhaps the iconic trickster Coyote is a symbol for the frustrations of the smart person in a stupid world. Facebook reminds me I wrote this a year ago today: In my mind […]
Cupid’s Valentine moon
And fast food for werewolves… Tonight the moon was less than full but more than willing, the kind of moon that inspires killing lovers, hearts, and alcohol, this versatile moon can do […]
Short fiction: Taxonomy
“Good morning, everyone. I’m glad you could join us today. Let’s just go ahead and dive right in, shall we. Rich and Jamie have a flight back to Europa to catch when […]
Anti-abomination platform political capital goldmine for abominations
Whatever can be said for or against previous administrations, it is hard to contemplate the current administration under Trump without also considering the issue of…sexual immorality, of abomination. We’ve got a president […]
