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    HARD ASSES
    Doug Anderson
    • Jan 7
    • 1 min

    HARD ASSES

    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...
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    PERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELF
    Doug Anderson
    • Dec 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    PERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELF

    Venice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...
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    THE SINGLES AD
    Doug Anderson
    • Dec 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    THE SINGLES AD

    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...
    157 views1 comment
    REINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWING
    Doug Anderson
    • Dec 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    REINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWING

    David Flavin, Untitled DIA Beacon (figures are gallery visitors) The more conservative iterations of Theravada Buddhism posit thirty-one...
    60 views1 comment
    A LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISM
    Doug Anderson
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    A LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISM

    Ugolino and His Sons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Narcissism has become such a term of condemnation we seem to forget we're all...
    108 views1 comment
    The Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of Time
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of Time

    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...
    52 views0 comments
    Last Things
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 18, 2021
    • 1 min

    Last Things

    Sculptor Ledelle Moe, When, Mass MOCA Installation He said, no politics on this site and I said no politics is a political statement he...
    28 views0 comments
    GETTING SOBER: THE SOUL WALK
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    GETTING SOBER: THE SOUL WALK

    Decordova Museum, Antony Gormley. "Reflection II". 2008. Cast iron, 2 body forms. It's something like entering a new atmosphere and...
    28 views1 comment
    A BUDDHIST PRACTICE
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    A BUDDHIST PRACTICE

    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...
    63 views1 comment
    AS HONEST AS I'VE EVER BEEN
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    AS HONEST AS I'VE EVER BEEN

    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...
    147 views1 comment
    VETERANS DAY, AGAIN
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    VETERANS DAY, AGAIN

    Children and teachers in the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam, where there are memorials to children and road workers killed by American...
    92 views0 comments
    THE LACK OF UNITY ON THE LEFT
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    THE LACK OF UNITY ON THE LEFT

    WOMEN'S MARCH, 2017 The first Women's March was a powerful and most welcome event that counteracted the awfulness everyone was feeling...
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    LOOKING FOR THE HUMAN IN LA
    Doug Anderson
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    LOOKING FOR THE HUMAN IN LA

    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...
    26 views0 comments
    THE UGLY SPIRIT
    Doug Anderson
    • Oct 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    THE UGLY SPIRIT

    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...
    50 views0 comments
    The Mind of Right Wing Christianity
    Doug Anderson
    • Oct 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Mind of Right Wing Christianity

    This variant of Christianity foregrounds the crucifixion and the idea that the Jews killed Jesus (it was the Romans) without attending to...
    14 views0 comments
    CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, ET AL
    Doug Anderson
    • Oct 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, ET AL

    Listening to the great Paul Butterfield Blues band and thinking that if they were starting out today they would be solidly condemned for...
    67 views1 comment
    A BACK DOOR TO THE HEART
    Doug Anderson
    • Oct 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    A BACK DOOR TO THE HEART

    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...
    33 views0 comments
    IMPONDERABLE
    Doug Anderson
    • Oct 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    IMPONDERABLE

    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...
    14 views0 comments
    QUESTIONS
    Doug Anderson
    • Sep 13, 2021
    • 1 min

    QUESTIONS

    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...
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    THE CURSE OF LIVING LONG
    Doug Anderson
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    THE CURSE OF LIVING LONG

    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...
    108 views0 comments
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