It really is easy not to like things. Or rather, I should say, it’s really easy to express a negative opinion about things. Especially art. Especially your own art. Art is easy to dismiss. Art is easy to criticize. It’s easy to find the faults in a piece of art. Everyone with a mouth can …
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Making it Edible
Only food that smiles is worth eating. This burrito, for instance. Not necessarily pleasant. It began frozen. It was microwaved so the outside was no longer frozen, though the inside still was. Any child knows the time has to be set to five minutes or more and then you watch anxiously through the glass until …
Rocket Bike
I swear it was only one rocket. The bike could handle it, I knew, because it was my brother’s. I’d seen him taking it off some epic jumps, brutal jumps, super-mega jumps. The bike was still alive, and so was my brother. I knew it could take the punishment of a single rocket. It was …
Making the Call
Smell hamburger? It’s your own leg. Remember the accident? No? You’re still in shock. See the dead man over there? He was in the accident too. You didn’t kill him. Don’t worry about that. You’re not guilty of murder. You wouldn’t need that kind of trauma anyway. Losing the leg is enough. Do you remember …
The Artist Is In
There are so many types of art, I feel amazed that I feel a sense of respect for all of them. Sure there’s “modern art”, that tongue-in-cheek form of artistic expression which seems more accidental than planned, but I still have some respect for it. After all, it does supply us all with a focus …
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