Fringe Weekly Blogs

My mama said that life is like

My mama said that life is like a floppy disk. Once you find your information, you just cannot store it all on a skinny plastic donut. Off the top of my head, I can’t remember how much you could act...

Art is not seasonal

Art is not seasonal. Real art cannot be age restricted. Real art never really belongs to an art movement. Real art transcends its own market. And that’s the art of extreme optimism. I want to live ...

Who wants to go steady

Who wants to go steady with a meme? If I was single I’d refuse to date someone who calls themselves an influencer, although I also wanted to go viral somewhere along the way.If I was a morpheme (co...

Andy Warhol never got to use email

Andy Warhol never got to use email or make up a password. That’s weird. Although, I guess it’s not too weird when you consider that neither Rembrandt nor Van Gogh would even understand the word “pa...

Nurse Ratched was the horror of Cuckoo’s Nest

Nurse Ratched was the horror of Cuckoo’s Nest, which is code for you have to be of a certain age to remember Jack (Nicholson) as the sane but complicated madman McMurphy, who was a cult figure from...

Aliens are revolting

Aliens are revolting. The ones that hide in your house waiting to attack you, while they dribble rivers of spit on your floor, are the worst.Xenomorphs evolved to do nothing at all, but inhabit the...

Shopping would be much more fun if

Shopping would be much more fun if we could rotate our heads like owls. Supermarket isles wouldn’t be a tedious mix of going back and forth, trying to see why one’s companions are lagging behind, c...

The purpose of art is

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls. Well, that’s what Picasso said at any rate. I guess he thought that what we do every day makes us dull and a little dirty. Clearl...

The pod got flu

The pod got flu which meant there was suffering in separate rooms as we sweated it out. People who are under the weather are also under the radar. You should be able to order a replacement body in ...

Art is love made public

Art is love made public. I didn’t say that. Someone called Hernando Fuentes said it in a moment of clarity, in the series Sense 8 that you can watch on Netflix if you have a ton of patience.The poi...

This is a pretty old pic but

This is a pretty old pic but. I don’t love my beard. The awful thing about being a man is the need to break away from harmful stereotypes about, um, other men. The finger never points back at you i...