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Archive for February, 2011

(The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme) Someone once told me that the trick to winning in basketball is that you have to have more points when the buzzer goes off. That didn’t make much sense to me at the time, but since then I’ve thought about it many, many times. Now I understand that [...]

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(Le Pigeon aux Petits Pois-Picasso, 1911) Raise your hand if you like cubism, please! I used to not like it. The first time I saw some cubism, I was just bored. But then again, I was 15 and I felt bored with everything. You could have shown me a mathematical equation for a process that eliminated [...]

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I had a dream once, a couple years ago. In the dream I was standing in line at the grocery store and a tall, droopy man with a newsboy cap and a trench coat with an unlit Capri cigarette dangling from his lips was standing in front of me. He proceeded to let several people [...]

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