Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

I just re-watched the documentary Crumb about artist Robert Crumb for the first time in about seventeen years. It has this great segment d...

Well, looks like my Burning House picture was passed around at tumblr . Much obliged to whoever started it and those who re-tumbled ...

What's a person to make of our times? The famed Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro, one of the New Seven Wonders of ...

The illustrations are by Edward Windsor Kemble , and were included in the original, 1884 publication of the novel . The French call an episo...

Bob Peak in 1985 A really cool art gallery, Gallery Nucleus , will feature the works of Bob Peak all month long. Bob Peak was an American ...

May 16, 2011 UPDATE: In honor of The Daily Sentinel (subscription only) having an "interview" with Diedrich Rulfs , and a link b...

In Exit Ghost (2007), writer Philip Roth 's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman , returns like Rip Van Winkle to a post-9/11 New York after bei...

The last time I went to Palestine (November 2006), gas was $1.98 a gallon. Today it was $3.34 as I returned for a second look. I found a ...

Self-Portrait (1925-30) From the Wikipedia entry : Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American painter and printmaker. Wh...

The New Seven Wonders of the World are: The Great Wall (China), Petra (Jordan), Christ Redeemer (I'm not sure how that's a wond...

This is one of the reasons it's nice to live in a small, college town like Nacogdoches. While on a walk at the S.F.A. Mast Arboretum , ...