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Few people these days would call this thing a spigot these days, but it’s an old word I like so that’s reason enough to make it the name of this new painting (I also originally thought to call this week’s newsletter “Staring into the Void” but reconsidered.) Coming up with titles for pictures is aContinue reading “Spigot”

I won’t bore you with show sketches this week but if you want you can always see the newest ones here. I wrote about the ridiculous over-marketing of van Gogh for the Reader, reviewed Hillary Chute’s book about how comics portray war for the Trib, and stopped by my pal Nick’s radio show to chat. I haven’t watched Vertigo since longContinue reading “van Vertigo”

Saturday I went to Constellation to listen to the Tomeka Reid Quartet. It was beautiful stuff. Especially the work of Mary Halvorson on guitar. I’ve been playing a solo recording of hers called “Meltframe” a lot lately. It’s her take on a bunch of standards, but she completely transforms them into her own thing. It’sContinue reading “Demolition”