It is not a novel thought, I know – the charm of the old, sweet love songs, is well known, and it is easily dismissed as mere nostalgia – but in the context of today’s highly addictive landscape, it resonates in important ways. It occurred to me that the oldContinue Reading

There is more subtlety and more nuance in real human relationships than in any work created by an artist (by artist, I am not referring to pop artists or celebrities, but creators whose art most people don’t “get”). One might even suggest that artists lack a sense for human artifice,Continue Reading

My qualiadelic philosophy is a mere framework, a skeleton, a blueprint or a map that helps me know the world. It is like a child’s sketch of a tree, or a house, or a face – poor art, perhaps, but charming. Living it, though, when I notice new qualia orContinue Reading