Shared antipathies are the ties that bind.
Dec 312015
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Dec 102015
Our feelings may not be sincere, but our feelings about our feelings always are.
Dec 032015
Cool has always been good’s implacable enemy.
Nov 172015
People who like sports say a lot more intelligent things about sports than people who like art say about art.
Oct 122015
The world has a glut of bad artists and a shortage of good waiters.
Oct 092015
It is odd that there is so much talk of genius, when geniuses deny that it exists, and the rest of us wouldn’t know.
Oct 072015
There are abusers of art, as there are abusers of alcohol, for much the same reasons, and with much the same effects.
Oct 022015
To have taste is to have too much confidence in it.
Sep 182015
Our thirst for narrative makes saints of reformed sinners, and reformed sinners of saints.
Sep 162015
Sometimes we imagine things into existence, more often out of it.