I’ve noticed a food trend. It’s not sexy like figs with warm honey, or technically brilliant and tasteless like foam. It’s definitely not healthy. And it’s more a style of eating than any new culinary concoction. It involves doing a face plant in clouds of takeout wrapping paper. Anyone watching you eat like this has [...]
Fotoshop by Adobé
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
Smoking frieze
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
Photo: “Smoking Frieze” taken by my pal Keith Mulvihill, West 19th Street, NYC, January 3, 2012 Why should we use all of our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulations of [too many] objects and [too much] money. [...]
Thinking outside the box
Originally published in December 2011 in Blog
Window shopping this weekend I noticed a trend in wall hangings: large, white cardboard cutouts of the Canadian provinces, especially the trio of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It got me thinking: if you only bought Saskatchewan, no one would know what the rectangle on your wall signified. Cartography is a human invention, an [...]
What a difference a day makes
Originally published in August 2011 in Blog
The nearness of you
Originally published in May 2011 in Blog
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