Category: Pynchon
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Reading Is Resistance
After a crazy year of traveling and shows, then a couple of months spent hiding from the New Model Army after the election, I’m back to a normal studio and class routine. By “normal”, I mean about 6-8 days each month as studio monitor at the Art Students League of Denver. You can sign up…
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Reading Edge: Strange Landscapes
Outside my window, in the park, people are anxious to get on with their pre-pandemic lives. I’m not sure that will ever happen, but it’s a fantasy that won’t let go, and it’s leading to a resurgence in infections. I have the luxury, and the imperative, to keep quarantining, to a certain amount. The recommendation…
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The Reading Edge: When the Going Gets Weird
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson A vacancy of purpose takes hold. This is not necessarily a bad thing in a creative sense; I’ve alluded to large empty landscapes in my work and in my creative process. An idea, I’ve said, might be compared to a single rider appearing…
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My Favorite Mistakes
“Did you know when you go It’s the perfect ending” Sheryl Crow, My Favorite Mistake “My Favorite Mistake” is the title of my list of books I thought would be great, but couldn’t finish, or even start. I’m not bored with writing blurbs and reviews, but do they really tell as much about my…
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Read Flag!
It’s Banned Books Week. Though it’s been a busy Summer, I’ve gotten quite a bit of reading in. Evenings and mornings have mostly been spent catching up on my reading on the back porch, thankfully relatively cool this summer. Here is what I’ve been reading. Rather than compile a comprehensive entry, which I’ve identified as a reason…
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Weekend Squish: Book Review
It’s Pynchon month in Squishytown! We started the festivities off by bussing down August 4 to Tattered Cover for his latest, INHERENT VICE. Things really ramped up with a 94-word run-on tribute sentence wedged into the previous Squishtoid post – still far short of the 400+ monster that opens MASON AND DIXON, but I guess…
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Goin’ Down the Road…
We’ve all got wheels, to take us far away. We’ve got [Squishtoid blogs] to say, what we can’t say… -Flying Burrito Bros. Spent the weekend listening to mountain music. That specific mix of Bluegrass, Folk, and Country Rock I first inhaled after leaving the bleak, Hard-Rock steel yards of the Queen City of the Lakes…
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Weekend Squish: A Squishing Comes Across the Sky.
Days without Job: 122 Days Without New Pynchon Novel: -3 In this newly job-less ‘slacker’s’ version of heaven, the required beach read is Thomas Pynchon. So the news, late last year, of an new TP novel, Inherent Vice, out August 4, is welcomed. The unusually quick turn-around, three years – with 10 not unusual for…
