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A few months ago I found my self screaming and cursing like the kid in “The Exorcist.” If  my sister had not calmed me, I suspect I would have gone on to levitate, projectile vomit green slime, and spin my head around. – Why? – The computer!
I had done a portrait of this lady’s dog [...]

Decades ago I saw the film, “Sweet November”, in which Sandy Dennis refers to her boyfriend, Anthony Newley, as “Hurry-up Ding,  Ding” . He has amassed a fortune in business while starving his emotional and creative life. He is a human automaton in a great rush to get nowhere of real value.
She is detemined to “re-humanize” him. Unknown [...]

Sometimes I step away from the 21st Century blues into a half-remembered reverie of the past. The past was not always better, even if we remember it that way because we were children with Santa Clause coming, or teens in first love, or just young and agile like mountain goats leaping over every obstace in our [...]