Month: December 2020

My brother and I used to play speed chess
at Prufrock’s (as in The Lovesong of J. Alfred,
but with hard rock ambient music)
in Montrose (the Village, the Quarter, of Houston)
… Continue Reading >speed chess

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a26012058/eve-babitz-interview/ not for nuthin’, but this posed picture with Eve Babitz & Marcel Duchamp, and her personal recollection (at the … Continue ReadingFool’s Mate

If the Current state of the world were not enough to convince even the most obdurately optimistic among us of our sorry peril, surely the History of the world would . . . … Continue Reading >Pseudopraxis

I feel SO uncertain about everything, these days. Not only Global and Continental issues, but more particularly, personal issues.

I am comfortable with that, though; I have lived with that uncertainty for many years. Like all humans inflicted with intelligence & perception, the myriad of possibilities, most of them dire, threatens me with paralysis-by-analysis, but I still persist.
… Continue Reading >The difference between Think & Feel

via Riding the Dragon “But then I looked back, into the abyss of self-doubt. I erupted with fear, self-loathing, dark … Continue Readingfailure, and even more failure