essays

essays

A selection of my essays

  1. Bubble
  2. Supernatural songs
  3. Camus knew
  4. Transmission and renewal
  5. This is how it feels
  6. On homelessness
  7. Charade and masquerade
  8. Artistic temperament
  9. A sense of permanence
  10. April
  11. Pistis Sophia
  12. An amazing book on science and art
  13. RTFM
  14. Snippets
  15. Attention
  16. Shine a Light
  17. In the ears
  18. Floor 5
  19. Country Road
  20. The obits
  21. Elevator romance
  22. Invisible
  23. Disposable
  24. Apathy
  25. MySpace pose
  26. What Max said
  27. Keep your coins
  28. One big hyperlinked world
  29. Solvitur ambulando
  30. Worn out a welcome
  31. Power
  32. Up against the wall
  33. Clocks
  34. Met on MySpace
  35. Slow down
  36. Helplessness
  37. Pure folk music
  38. The eyes have it
  39. Packaging
  40. Get a grip on yourself
  41. The librarian
  42. Dawson's 1936 reflection
  43. Growing older
  44. Leave well enough alone
  45. Chinese takeout and aloofness
  46. Nifty, keen, groovy, cool
  47. A moment of spiritual clarity
  48. Sic transit gloria mundi
  49. Telephone
  50. Close encounters of the real kind
  51. It is what it is
  52. Overly compliant
  53. Salt of the earth
  54. Graven images
  55. Intactness
  56. Myself
  57. Threading a needle
  58. Storytelling
  59. The business of misery
  60. Opiates of the people
  61. This is not a pipe
  62. Google to Google conversation
  63. Thanksgiving in an ice storm
  64. The player
  65. Ten minutes
  66. We must cultivate our garden
  67. Unnatural voices
  68. Living wage
  69. Forced out and dismissal
  70. Everybody loves a parade
  71. Profit instead of prophet
  72. Sending some love
  73. Expedition and tundra
  74. Mutual admiration society
  75. Comment fever
  76. Sino-industrial thoughts
  77. Misperceptions
  78. The message
  79. Tennis ball
  80. Heart of glass, heart of stone
  81. I don't exist
  82. What's the use in trying
  83. Copies and reproduction
  84. Plugged in
  85. Emotional illiteracy
  86. Rock on
  87. Coins
  88. Stone storybooks
  89. Zippers
  90. "I love my computer because my friends are in it"
  91. Belonging
  92. The home
  93. "L’enfer c’est les autres"
  94. IX/XI/MMI
  95. The geography lesson
  96. Workshop of the world
  97. Looking at life through a rear view mirror
  98. Death on the internet
  99. It had to have happened
  100. Fund$
  101. A cry in the darkness
  102. YourSpace
  103. "You there?"
  104. "Accidental Empires"
  105. Annoyability
  106. Silence
  107. Bald spot
  108. Conscientiousness
  109. A quickly passing philosophical thought
  110. Cursum perficio
  111. First cell phone
  112. Two holes
  113. The wall
  114. Unplugged
  115. Paying someone else to live your life
  116. Unsurpassable love
  117. Woody and Sid
  118. Did it online
  119. It's all about approval
  120. Snapped
  121. Just another plastic mattress
  122. Complacency, Stoicism and compassion
  123. You can't sit on God's steps anymore
  124. In love with love
  125. Stealing beauty
  126. Portillon automatique
  127. IM, email and telephones
  128. Cut and paste world
  129. Actions and words
  130. Spheres
  131. Copoclephilist
  132. Emotional entropy
  133. Fast food
  134. Emotional outbursts
  135. Ethnocentricity
  136. Love at first sight
  137. Hehe ... haha
  138. Zooming in
  139. Polarities
  140. Durable
  141. Robot love
  142. No problem
  143. Nasty
  144. Use it or lose it
  145. A rose by any other name
  146. Repair
  147. Charity
  148. Something and the city
  149. Word differences
  150. No address
  151. Captivity
  152. The question
  153. Talk talk
  154. Third world
  155. It's all automatic
  156. Hello
  157. Broken lives
  158. One and two
  159. PDA and insecurity
  160. Anhedonia is no fun
  161. Beast of burden
  162. A barrage of images
  163. Where it all comes from
  164. Sunglasses, awesome, for real, and no problem
  165. Isolation
  166. Left out in the cold
  167. Fridays
  168. Ring my bell
  169. Time after time
  170. Birdhouse
  171. e-friends
  172. Handwriting
  173. 1960s and 1970s and now
  174. Too much metal
  175. We can't rewind
  176. Pictures at an exhibition
  177. Fearing the unknown
  178. e-sentimentality
  179. No-brainer
  180. First record
  181. Okay
  182. Giving in
  183. ID badges
  184. Talking with things
  185. Let the mystery be
  186. The Collatz Conjecture
  187. Navajo Sand Drawings and Tibetan Kalachakra Mandalas
  188. Hammer and anvil
  189. Journey to the center
  190. Friends, pseudo-friends, and virtual friends
  191. 491
  192. Through to the future
  193. The tin man, the wizard, and a heart
  194. Music and art as therapy
  195. The Golden Rule or The Golden Calf
  196. Pseudo friends, virtual friends, electronic friends
  197. On why one is a singleton
  198. Nots and knots
  199. The year of living dangerously
  200. White snow, Snow white, Grimms, and Bruno Bettelheim
  201. Masters of Illusion and Ships in the night
  202. Tichborne's Elegy written in 1586 from the Tower
  203. Life is an adventure, more on distracted walking, and self-indulgence
  204. Distracted walking and the ode
  205. Harmonic convergence
  206. Rush hour
  207. Bucky Fuller
  208. The Wasteland and the Sibyl of Cumae
  209. Excellence without a soul
  210. Blondie's Rapture video and Will Barnes
  211. Jeannie Greeley's first use of internet meet-ups
  212. You will find Synchronicity
  213. On a funny story from Woody Allen
  214. The $20 bill