Writing | Arthur Bacon

I Don’t Cairn

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir When I was at the University of Denver in the late sixties; come...

Glen Beck’s: The Year 2039 in Review

(3 AM reading material for Elizabeth Warren at senate climate-change all-nighter) 2039 was an excellent year for America as the “Russian...

Thank God, We’re Free at Last

How I have longed for this day every day for eight years! Now, at last, I can sleep, work, read, write, make art, plant some lilacs,...

Ferguson Is Here.

To The Seattle Times Ferguson can happen anywhere, anytime. It tried to happen Wednesday morning on the #40 bus heading north from...

Adam Gopnik; Learning to (not) Draw (New Yorker, 27 June 2011)

About fifteen years ago a friend of mine and I had a huge argument about (retinal) drawing. One day I suggested the possibility that one...

Docking

“The mammalian tail, present in all mammalian species, has evolved as a surprisingly multi-purpose and important appendage”. Department...

David Byrd at Greg Kucera Gallery

Every First Thursday we meet at the Café Vita before making the rounds of several galleries around Pioneer Square after which we try to...

David Mamet Capitulates

I grew up in the New York world of classical music surrounded by the harmonies of Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn played by Lenny, Isaac,...

Corey Deuel at the Doctor’s

Three weeks ago, Dr. Cue Billiards in Seattle, announced that Corey Deuel would be coming on Monday, 22 January to “give private lessons...

Some Comments Regarding Three Billiard Books Or: What The Billiard Magazines Refuse to Tell Us

There’s no book so bad that something good may not be found in it. Cervantes I seem to find myself in places where a decent game of pool...