Book of the week: The Sound of Paper
Julia Cameron’s The Sound of Paper: Starting From Scratch is a sort of companion book to her bestseller The Artist’s Way. The book unfurls over the course of one of Cameron’s annual journeys to her then-summer home of Taos, New Mexico from her then-usual home of Manhattan. Cameron and...
Book of the week: Jim Goad’s The Headache Factory
Well, I haven’t finished any books this week, but hey, last week’s book blog was about something I read last year so let’s continue that trend, eh? I’m a big fan of Jim Goad’s. I have a bunch of his books, read his Taki’s Magazine column all the time...
Book of the week: The Artist’s Way (plus how I ended up working through it)
Where to begin with this one… well, about a year ago I was feeling the need to get back to making some sort of art, having spent the majority of my creative energy in the previous couple years either involved with buying and renovating and decorating my house (plus...
Book of the Week (plus side tangents, of course!): John Taylor’s In the Pleasure Groove
So, as mentioned/joked about on the first couple episodes of the new Under My Skin podcast, I recently finished John Taylor’s autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran. Well, let’s have a more fair look than I gave it in the podcast, hmm? (In my defense,...
Ancestral languages, my efforts to learn Irish, and book of the week: Motherfoclóir
Dia duit! (Irish for hello). Where to begin today… well, I think I mentioned before about trying to learn Irish on Duolingo… which is infuriating (though made better when one learns that the website version of Duolingo has grammar notes even though the app version leaves you high and...
A rant about rhinestones or the lack thereof, also book of the week: The Follies Bergere in Las Vegas
When I was a kid, showgirls still seemed to be everywhere on TV… probably it was old syndicated variety shows from the 60s and 70s I was watching (just as I watched Bewitched religiously long after it was no longer running), but then there were also aspects of showgirl...
Chugging along on that “comic”
Not much to report, at least not that’s all that visually interesting at the moment. For the “comic” I’m working on (about the wassailing traditions in England), as I said in my last post, I realized that until I finish the text I can’t be 100% sure of the...