mradot's blog
made with only the “freshest”
-
in Art
PoxVop: Forever?
My machine died last week, and because I am an idiot who hasn’t backed up since March, I have now lost all the work from the most productive period of my artistic and professional life.…
-
in Essays
On Common Nonsense
You better hope you’re fallingWhen you look up and see brown… That’s the first two lines of a song that almost came to me on Saturday. I have no idea what it means. I have a vague idea,…
-
in Art
PoxVop: Ploverbs #1
-
in Writing
Swelter: To Be Uncomfortably Hot
How about that sun, eh? It turns out I have sweat glands. It’s always nice to meet new people, I say. But I wish I could have made their acquaintance under different conditions. 2015 is likely to be…
-
in Art
Picture: Escape
-
in Writing
Living the Lie
Warning: this is a pseudo-listicle. Recently I’ve been reading titanic writing from GQ, the NY and LA Times, Esquire, Wired; learning big new words like metastasize and scrofulous and pulchritudinous— guess which one means…
-
in Art
Picture: Louis Braille, Legend
I hope I’ve done this justice. Every bust, every portrait of this man shows a different face. And none of them is easy to capture in outlines– at least, not for an amateur. I remember…
-
in Writing
He Makes Verse
This originally appeared on misteragyeman.blogspot.com on July 14, 2015. My mail inbox just tried to kill me. I opened Gmail this morning after a heavy 12-hour marathon of work, rushing to redeem a long-deferred promise of mine.…
-
in Writing
Story: Jasper
This originally appeared on misteragyeman.blogspot.com on June 15, 2015. Hello. It’s been a while. I haven’t felt like writing much. But I decided to do so this week, to fix a brooding phase which wasn’t helped much by…