Within the world of pop/rock music, there have been only three* completely original (that is, mental) dancers. One is Samuel T. Herring of Baltimore’s Future Islands. […]

Paisley is the pattern of counter-culture. It is the love-peace motif of the Beatles, the pop culture kitsch of Grant Morrison’s “Zenith,” and the name of […]

Drinking in public. It varies from stupefied alcoholics, to lads enjoying a beer in the summer-sun, to this guy walking towards me. Between Potsdamer Platz and […]

There are some cities to become lost in, others where perhaps you can find yourself in. To me this place has always been Berlin. It’s a […]

Or 5 restaurants to get super vegetarian food in Brno Maso is one of the first Czech words I learned. Followed closely by kuře, hovězí, jehněčí […]

“The eyebrow pencil was no mere charcoal emphasis on blond eyebrows, but a design necessary to balance a chaotic asymmetry. Make up and powder were not […]

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”  – Stephen King  Sitting in a […]

“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. […]

Ernest Hemmingway was an alcoholic. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic. Dorothy Parker was an alcoholic. Notice a trend here? According to research 71% of famous […]

His eyes are golden saucers, one-way mirrors that stare at me through time. That is of course when he’s not sleeping. Which if you’re a 17 […]

What did J.D. Salinger leave behind in his safe when he died recently? Mere notes or scribbling or did he continue writing after 1965 and finish, […]

Someone recently asked me when I knew I was a writer, and I wasn’t sure what to say. I wasn’t sure for a while if I […]

A cat sits in the last shaft of dying afternoon sun. It is the embodiment of bliss; warm tawny pointed ears, sleek, squinty eyes sliding their […]