I grew up with hardasses. Some of them had earned their hardass badge--the depression, poverty, etc. But they weren't a lot of fun to be...

Venice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...

Window of Evolution, Soho, New York I’ve never composed a single’s ad, nor have I visited one of the many coupling websites. Of all their...

David Flavin, Untitled DIA Beacon (figures are gallery visitors) The more conservative iterations of Theravada Buddhism posit thirty-one...

Ugolino and His Sons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Narcissism has become such a term of condemnation we seem to forget we're all...

There is no way I could see all of the museum in a day. My senses and mind would overload. It's enough to make me want to live in New...

Sculptor Ledelle Moe, When, Mass MOCA Installation He said, no politics on this site and I said no politics is a political statement he...

Decordova Museum, Antony Gormley. "Reflection II". 2008. Cast iron, 2 body forms. It's something like entering a new atmosphere and...

That's what it is. A practice, not a religion, although some have made it so. There is nothing in the early Pali literature that suggests...

QUANG NAM PROVINCE, VIETNAM, 1967 If I were running for office I'd get it all up front: I've been bad. I've had VD. I've had threesomes...

Children and teachers in the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam, where there are memorials to children and road workers killed by American...

WOMEN'S MARCH, 2017 The first Women's March was a powerful and most welcome event that counteracted the awfulness everyone was feeling...

Once, out of curiosity, I went to a high-end BDSM store in Los Angeles; a big high-ceilinged place, a Macy’s of BDSM, with every kind of...

Walking my old near-dead dog in Providence, a mean young dog goes after her, bites. She yelps. I look in the owner’s eyes: nothing, no...

This variant of Christianity foregrounds the crucifixion and the idea that the Jews killed Jesus (it was the Romans) without attending to...

Listening to the great Paul Butterfield Blues band and thinking that if they were starting out today they would be solidly condemned for...

Meditation teacher Mark Hart talks about the front of the heart and the back of the heart. The front of the heart is often about our...

Isn't amazing how people who are not in love are so quick give advice to those who are? Especially obnoxious is someone who wants to...

Questions Can you be kind can you forgive petty things and even some bad ones Can you see the wisdom of Horace I Am Human Therefore...

Is to see the wheel turn twice. In the sixties we at once took off our clothes and a deadening morality. It was, as we saw, not moral. We...