Monday, December 31, 2018

Looking Back on 2018

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Mural seen in Antwerp, Belgium June 2018. Looking back on it, in many respects, 2018 was not a great year for me. Had lots of drama a...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Album Review: Orpheus vs. the Sirens by The Hermit and the Recluse (Ka & Animoss)

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Orpheus in Hades   (Beronneau, 1897). "Judging from my cover, each chapter's a revelation"   - Ka An emcee who ...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

More Notes on David Markson's "Notecard Quartet"

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To an astronomer, man is but an insignificant dot in an infinite universe---said whoever. Though that insignificant dot is also the astrono...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Discovering David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress and "The Notecard Quartet"

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Somebody is living on this beach. - Wittgenstein's Mistress , p. 240 Quelqu'un vit sur cette plage. [Somebody is living on ...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

"The Library" by István Orosz

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from here .
Sunday, October 21, 2018

A Brief Note on "Marksmen": the Intricate Lyrical Design of Citizen Ka

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Preparatory to an upcoming review of my favorite album of the year thus far,  Orpheus vs the Sirens,  by the Hermit and the Recluse also kno...
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Sunday, September 9, 2018

Book Review: Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is Lit!

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Last summer, topping off a binge of reading Thomas Pynchon books, I set forth on the long, arduous, and vastly entertaining excursion of ...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Healing Ingredients for Hard Times

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Greek street art from  here . "A middenhide hoard of objects!"  - Finnegans Wake , p. 19 "To clean and tidy u...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

"Conflicted"

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"Conflicted"  by Ka
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Rōnin Joyce Scholar, Thought to be Dead, Resurfaces and Other Reports Following Bloomsday 2018

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Illustration of Finnegans Wake page 15 by Peter O'Brien from here .  Recently I returned from a phenomenal trip to Antwerp, Belgiu...
Friday, March 30, 2018

MLB 2018 Season Predictions (Part 2)

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Gazing at the future thru the crystal ball... Continuing the altogether futile and pointless exercise of predicting how each division...