Machiavelli and the Economy of Violence
The New Inquiry has a fascinating dialogue on the role of the reactionary in conservatism, featuring Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, […]
The New Inquiry has a fascinating dialogue on the role of the reactionary in conservatism, featuring Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, […]
So. I made this. I find that if I don’t keep track of where my time is going, I tend to find myself wondering at 11:30pm where the evening went. […]
The original sketch: First stamp: First stamp refined: Sketch for second stamp, with pencil indicating changes I wanted to make: Second stamp, which I made by […]
It all started with an essay by Elizabeth Bachner on the nature of genius and the mysticism of art. She points out that “Genius is not, etymologically speaking, a trait, […]
Posted: October 23, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment If you ever chance to spend a little time around a substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet House, you […]
Notes on The Making of an Expert, by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely. Harvard Business Review, July/August 2007 All the superb performers [benjamin Bloom] investigated […]
A guide for the emerging comics artist or how to behave on the Internet w/r/t social media. Don’t take your readership for granted Small readership defined: If your Twitter and […]
Over at dynamanga.net, Dirk Tiede has been working on a series of master studies as an exercise to sharpen his drawing skills. Being inspired by the idea, I decided I […]
Shawn Blanc brings up something that’s been bothering me for the past few years: consuming content. We say “consuming content” as a way to sum up the act of reading, […]