Category Archives: New Post

Pay no attention to the existential threat behind the curtain

Posted on June 7, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

There’s a phrase you hear over and over in the debates, such as they are, that American chatterers and politicos engage in on the subject of climate change: “Perpetrating a Fraud“ Here’s the context: a minority of my countrymen have decided, … Continue reading →

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RIP Ann B. Davis (May 5, 1926 – June 1, 2014)

Posted on June 1, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

You just know she made the best PB&J ever. It would have been tough under any circumstances to say goodbye to the one and only Alice: She helped raise a couple hundred million of us. She was pretty damned good … Continue reading →

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Every other year – the art world lets its hair down

Posted on May 31, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Doesn’t seem easy for the arts to do the unexpected. Or rather, artists themselves thrive on the unusual and the risky, but the arts establishment does its best to steer them, and their production, right back toward the mainstream. This … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day 2014 – Recognition and Thanks

Posted on May 26, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Memorial Day. It’s the unofficial start of summer, a pre-solstice revelry of warm weather and outdoor fun. For many of us, myself thoroughly included, it’s a long-anticipated 3-day weekend, a barbecue bacchanalia, a day to relax and unwind. But we … Continue reading →

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World Cup 2022 – Qatar’s and FIFA’s shame

Posted on May 23, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

This is not a world without misery, squalor, servitude, and slavery. These things, as much as they should be stamped out, remain tenaciously with us. We shouldn’t resign ourselves to them, but sometimes it seems like we might as well. … Continue reading →

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Vince McMahon’s financial smackdown

Posted on May 20, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

How was your day, last Friday? Was it better than WWE founder Vince McMahon’s? When McMahon woke up on May 16th, he was a billionaire. When he (presumably) drank himself to sleep that night, he wasn’t. I had a $20 … Continue reading →

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Simon Smith’s stunning London

Posted on May 10, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Director and filmmaker Simon Smith has just given us one of the most stunning short films of the year—collaborating across nine decades to create Wonderful London in 1924 & 2014 (link). Here are Smith’s own words on how he captured … Continue reading →

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Hot Tech Today: Beyond the controversy

Posted on May 4, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

I won’t pretend to be unbiased on this one, or even un-self-interested. I’ve been ‘fessing up about my association with Hot Tech Today since the summer of 2012. Back then we were scrabbling together a little tech blog, posting a … Continue reading →

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The new creators

Posted on April 27, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

The birth of digital interconnectivity brought with it an intrinsic challenge: Would our participation in the global conversation be active, or passive? And the answer came almost at once, because the digital revolution determined, definitively, that content is king. Content … Continue reading →

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Back that shniz up

Posted on April 20, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Take it as a warning. Learn by my woeful example. There are a thousand stupid tech-based ways you can lose hours or worse of work, whether through your own lapses or through the randomness of electron waywardness. In my case—yes … Continue reading →

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American Blogger – shunned on arrival

Posted on April 16, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Never has one movie been so thoroughly panned, largely by representatives of its supposed subject community, on the strength of its pre-release trailer alone (see here and here). American Blogger is a documentary created by Chris Wiegand, in which he … Continue reading →

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Join the culture cadre

Posted on March 22, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

The United States is one of the few modern societies that, from the top, generally ignores most of its internal cultural development, and ruthlessly politicizes the rest. We haven’t been verging on cultural wasteland-edness for generations on accident—it’s imprinted on … Continue reading →

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The sadness will last forever: Reliving the art of Vincent Van Gogh

Posted on March 11, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

We enjoyed a weekend outing, this weekend past (“we” being the Deconstruction Family), to the Cleveland Museum of Art—a world-class institution, boasting a world-class collection, right in the heart of the Rust Belt, and stone’s throw from the Lake Erie … Continue reading →

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Voracious 2014 edition – order now from Nocturnal Press Publications

Posted on March 9, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Couldn’t be happier to report that the latest edition of my 2012 novella, Voracious, is now available for pre-order from Nocturnal Press Publications. All thanks, then, to Shane and his crackerjack team for shepherding this project to fruition. Amenable to … Continue reading →

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Made in the USA – a collector’s retrospective

Posted on March 1, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Duncan Phillips pioneered the collection of American art. He did so at a time when most of the world was loathe to admit Americans could create or even appreciate art. From the 1920s until his death in 1966, he built … Continue reading →

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