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Thoughts and Happenings

Articles, essays, diatribes and polemics. Here's where I gather my wandering thoughts and capture the state of my fevered imagination in words. Little bugs trapped in digital amber ready to broadcast my enigmatic being to the ages. Or, you could just call it a blog, I suppose. Do we still call them that, darling?
  • oil painting of faces of two men, looks of pleasure on both their faces. one is grabbing the other by the neck and he would seem to really like the rough handling. contrasting this is a gentle background of blooming wisteria vines

    The Path of Least Respectability

    My art is a celebration of the erotic not just for pleasure alone, but pleasure as activism, pleasure as pathway to liberation.
  • oil painting of two male figure, one nude standing to the left, the other lying on the ground before a surreal landscape of swirling clouds, a red planet, and flowers

    John Carter, but make it gay!

    The gay erotic surrealism of Burrough's hyper-masculine hero John Carter unpacked through the medium of a new oil painting
  • pen and ink illustration of a femme fatale type woman pointing a gun at the viewer

    A little modesty, please!

    While I may have been immediately engrossed by a heady combination of artistic skill and nostalgia, it didn’t take long to realize that Modesty is a little different than other luminaries of the secret agent genre—then or now.
  • Go Figure

    Figure drawing is all about desire. This desire has levels, and twists, turns, and detours with interesting vistas along the way.
  • We are not free labor, we are not the product!

  • Watches of the Night

  • The erotic as continuum--not binary

  • The office, but not THAT office

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