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in Art
Picture: Escape
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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in Art
PoxVop: Hugger Not A Fighter
I’ve been a fan of boxing all my life. That said, every insight into the sport and the business pushed me father away, until now I’m too self-conscious to enjoy the eye-busting and jaw-breaking.…
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in Personal
About My Cancelled Concert
I want to apologize to all those who were so nice and supportive when I said that I was going to do a concert. The Sitdown was an experiment- ‘no cash, just kindness’, I said , and…
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in Writing
Story: Bobo
A coming-of-age tale. Around the third term of Class Five, thoughts of love begin to circulate. Everything conspires to make things this way. Torsos begin to advertise gender. The weather grows moist and…
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in Art
Picture: Transcend
I make a lot of pictures these days. It’s weird how I transition from words to music to pictures. It would be nice if I could hold all three at any one time. I started drawing this…