Even public relations suffers from science-envy: it is no accident that Relativity came between Barnum and Bernays.
Oct 032022
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Sep 202022
Only in the movies does it pour when it rains.
Sep 142022
Critics prefer drama to comedy because drama can be chewed over endlessly, and who wants to talk about why something’s funny?
Aug 302022
Public opinion is not what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes.
Aug 122022
The mad genius is rarely either and never both.
Aug 092022
Most artists who are supposed to have perished of drink or drugs in fact simply bored themselves to death.
Jul 272022
Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
Jun 062022
Every photograph is fake.
May 312022
Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.
May 042022
Without gods, religions run amok.