essays
essays
A selection of my essays
- Bubble
- Supernatural songs
- Camus knew
- Transmission and renewal
- This is how it feels
- On homelessness
- Charade and masquerade
- Artistic temperament
- A sense of permanence
- April
- Pistis Sophia
- An amazing book on science and art
- RTFM
- Snippets
- Attention
- Shine a Light
- In the ears
- Floor 5
- Country Road
- The obits
- Elevator romance
- Invisible
- Disposable
- Apathy
- MySpace pose
- What Max said
- Keep your coins
- One big hyperlinked world
- Solvitur ambulando
- Worn out a welcome
- Power
- Up against the wall
- Clocks
- Met on MySpace
- Slow down
- Helplessness
- Pure folk music
- The eyes have it
- Packaging
- Get a grip on yourself
- The librarian
- Dawson's 1936 reflection
- Growing older
- Leave well enough alone
- Chinese takeout and aloofness
- Nifty, keen, groovy, cool
- A moment of spiritual clarity
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- Telephone
- Close encounters of the real kind
- It is what it is
- Overly compliant
- Salt of the earth
- Graven images
- Intactness
- Myself
- Threading a needle
- Storytelling
- The business of misery
- Opiates of the people
- This is not a pipe
- Google to Google conversation
- Thanksgiving in an ice storm
- The player
- Ten minutes
- We must cultivate our garden
- Unnatural voices
- Living wage
- Forced out and dismissal
- Everybody loves a parade
- Profit instead of prophet
- Sending some love
- Expedition and tundra
- Mutual admiration society
- Comment fever
- Sino-industrial thoughts
- Misperceptions
- The message
- Tennis ball
- Heart of glass, heart of stone
- I don't exist
- What's the use in trying
- Copies and reproduction
- Plugged in
- Emotional illiteracy
- Rock on
- Coins
- Stone storybooks
- Zippers
- "I love my computer because my friends are in it"
- Belonging
- The home
- "L’enfer c’est les autres"
- IX/XI/MMI
- The geography lesson
- Workshop of the world
- Looking at life through a rear view mirror
- Death on the internet
- It had to have happened
- Fund$
- A cry in the darkness
- YourSpace
- "You there?"
- "Accidental Empires"
- Annoyability
- Silence
- Bald spot
- Conscientiousness
- A quickly passing philosophical thought
- Cursum perficio
- First cell phone
- Two holes
- The wall
- Unplugged
- Paying someone else to live your life
- Unsurpassable love
- Woody and Sid
- Did it online
- It's all about approval
- Snapped
- Just another plastic mattress
- Complacency, Stoicism and compassion
- You can't sit on God's steps anymore
- In love with love
- Stealing beauty
- Portillon automatique
- IM, email and telephones
- Cut and paste world
- Actions and words
- Spheres
- Copoclephilist
- Emotional entropy
- Fast food
- Emotional outbursts
- Ethnocentricity
- Love at first sight
- Hehe ... haha
- Zooming in
- Polarities
- Durable
- Robot love
- No problem
- Nasty
- Use it or lose it
- A rose by any other name
- Repair
- Charity
- Something and the city
- Word differences
- No address
- Captivity
- The question
- Talk talk
- Third world
- It's all automatic
- Hello
- Broken lives
- One and two
- PDA and insecurity
- Anhedonia is no fun
- Beast of burden
- A barrage of images
- Where it all comes from
- Sunglasses, awesome, for real, and no problem
- Isolation
- Left out in the cold
- Fridays
- Ring my bell
- Time after time
- Birdhouse
- e-friends
- Handwriting
- 1960s and 1970s and now
- Too much metal
- We can't rewind
- Pictures at an exhibition
- Fearing the unknown
- e-sentimentality
- No-brainer
- First record
- Okay
- Giving in
- ID badges
- Talking with things
- Let the mystery be
- The Collatz Conjecture
- Navajo Sand Drawings and Tibetan Kalachakra Mandalas
- Hammer and anvil
- Journey to the center
- Friends, pseudo-friends, and virtual friends
- 491
- Through to the future
- The tin man, the wizard, and a heart
- Music and art as therapy
- The Golden Rule or The Golden Calf
- Pseudo friends, virtual friends, electronic friends
- On why one is a singleton
- Nots and knots
- The year of living dangerously
- White snow, Snow white, Grimms, and Bruno Bettelheim
- Masters of Illusion and Ships in the night
- Tichborne's Elegy written in 1586 from the Tower
- Life is an adventure, more on distracted walking, and self-indulgence
- Distracted walking and the ode
- Harmonic convergence
- Rush hour
- Bucky Fuller
- The Wasteland and the Sibyl of Cumae
- Excellence without a soul
- Blondie's Rapture video and Will Barnes
- Jeannie Greeley's first use of internet meet-ups
- You will find Synchronicity
- On a funny story from Woody Allen
- The $20 bill