Doug AndersonJan 71 minHARD ASSESI 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...
Doug AndersonDec 21, 20211 minPERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELFVenice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...
Doug AndersonDec 10, 20213 minTHE SINGLES ADWindow 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...
Doug AndersonDec 9, 20212 minREINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWINGDavid Flavin, Untitled DIA Beacon (figures are gallery visitors) The more conservative iterations of Theravada Buddhism posit thirty-one...
Doug AndersonDec 1, 20215 minA LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISMUgolino and His Sons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Narcissism has become such a term of condemnation we seem to forget we're all...
Doug AndersonNov 24, 20212 minThe Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of TimeThere 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...
Doug AndersonNov 18, 20211 minLast ThingsSculptor Ledelle Moe, When, Mass MOCA Installation He said, no politics on this site and I said no politics is a political statement he...
Doug AndersonNov 15, 20212 minGETTING SOBER: THE SOUL WALKDecordova Museum, Antony Gormley. "Reflection II". 2008. Cast iron, 2 body forms. It's something like entering a new atmosphere and...
Doug AndersonNov 15, 20212 minA BUDDHIST PRACTICEThat'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...
Doug AndersonNov 14, 20211 minAS HONEST AS I'VE EVER BEENQUANG 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...
Doug AndersonNov 11, 20213 minVETERANS DAY, AGAINChildren and teachers in the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam, where there are memorials to children and road workers killed by American...
Doug AndersonNov 9, 20213 minTHE LACK OF UNITY ON THE LEFTWOMEN'S MARCH, 2017 The first Women's March was a powerful and most welcome event that counteracted the awfulness everyone was feeling...
Doug AndersonNov 3, 20211 minLOOKING FOR THE HUMAN IN LAOnce, 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...
Doug AndersonOct 26, 20211 minTHE UGLY SPIRITWalking 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...
Doug AndersonOct 14, 20211 minThe Mind of Right Wing ChristianityThis variant of Christianity foregrounds the crucifixion and the idea that the Jews killed Jesus (it was the Romans) without attending to...
Doug AndersonOct 13, 20212 minCULTURAL APPROPRIATION, ET ALListening to the great Paul Butterfield Blues band and thinking that if they were starting out today they would be solidly condemned for...
Doug AndersonOct 7, 20211 minA BACK DOOR TO THE HEARTMeditation 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...
Doug AndersonOct 3, 20211 minIMPONDERABLEIsn'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...
Doug AndersonSep 13, 20211 minQUESTIONSQuestions 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...
Doug AndersonSep 8, 20211 minTHE CURSE OF LIVING LONGIs 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...