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When I formed my new band I was tempted to invite all sorts of musicians to join and create a more layered and intricate sound but in the end I kept it stripped-down and simple, concluding that we’d be at our most dynamic and effective if we remained a trio.

My latest piece:

Now Get Back To It, You F***ing Baby

"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."

--Ursula K. Le Guin

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet? (and why today's poetry is so awful)

One thing I didn't point out here, but is well worth pointing out: Currently, our academic system (which is supposed be a meritocracy) has far fewer ways to measure things like "aesthetics" or "intuitions." Therefore, potential great scientists get passed over for more competent grade grinders.

Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality

Hey, I’m going to moderate a panel on writing identity at this

Magazine symposium on May 3d. Sign up…

Open Secrets Live in NYC, May 3, 2025

jersey city babyyy

In: Thin lips, Jersey City, big personalities, paywalls, Broadway, 24-hour Twitch streaming — “Truman Show shit,” chrome, excessive cocktail garnishes, “human made” as the new form of luxury, immersive retail, and handwritten tests.

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