Creative Psychosis

While it may seem I’m about to discuss how temperatures have finally shown a hint of warmth this month, and I can walk down 42nd St. without freezing my cajones off— I’m not. I’m actually thinking about spring break or, in my case, the lack thereof. This is due to the fact that my finances […]

“Perhaps you feel you’re being treated unfairly?” - Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back
I think far too many people would answer ‘Yes’ to that infamous quote above. Just look at all of the lawsuits, mass protests, and workplace disdain going on in our country. There’s really a lot of people that think they’re being treated […]

I recently got into a discussion with family about cell phones, and everyone was comparing their providers and models and so on. My uncle had a Nextel, and he was raving about the ‘Direct Connect‘, and how easy it was to communicate with co-workers while he was working on a contracting job.
While I was able […]

That title just about sums up my Easter weekend. While I would imagine that wasn’t why the powers-that-be celebrated the holiday originally, I’m certainly not complaining. Of course, playing Texas Hold’Em with family can be tough, since they usually know all of your tells, but it’s always a good time.
Equally enjoyable, I must have eaten […]

I was thinking about why people get depressed and go insane and so on. Don’t ask me why, man… it’s just my nature. Anyway, I was waxing how our work systems have all of these provisions built in that in the event of someone going crazier than a coconut, there are fail-safes which can be […]

I took a personal day today to work on some projects and tend to some errands. The recurring motif I find in such days is no matter how well you plan things out, you cannot accomplish everything exactly the way you want.
There are no straight lines in life, everything has curves and detours. Of course, […]

Ever since I entered into the decision to start a publishing/artwork business, the last 7 months of my life has been a blur. It’s tough to branch out on your own, even tougher if you’re trying to do it while working a 9-5 desk job as well. I had tried to kick my caffeine habits […]

Over the past year or so, I’ve found a fondness for guacamole. Whenever I have the chance to get it, I do. It’s quite tasty. Of course, this can have its repercussions. After consuming a Turkey Bacon Guacamole sub from Quizno’s for lunch today, my stomach has been in utter turmoil. I haven’t lost the […]

The eternal question continues to burn in the hearts and wallets of artists everywhere— Is art made for the sake of the people, or the artist who makes it? If you think it’s for the people, then that would presume that the art must be mass-produced so it can be purchased by the rich and […]

Wouldn’t it be great if you’re driving home one night and you get pulled over by a cop? Okay, maybe not. But it would be if that same cop told you he smelled ‘change‘ on your breath and you’d have to step out of your current stagnant life and into something new and exciting. If […]

This morning, I joked to my fiancé about me wearing a hideous kelly green sweater I have at the top of my closet just because I heard on the radio it was St. Patrick’s Day. Since I’m not Irish and no longer a frequent visitor to the Manhattan bar scene, I decided against it.
However, on […]

For anyone who has been stuck in a boring job for a few years with minimal signs of escaping to something better, every so often you might receive a ray of sweet sunshine… it is the light of the staffing agency. It begins with a simple e-mail— “We saw your resume online and wanted to […]

There should never be moments in life that are like that final 5 seconds of the classic game Perfection. You know what I’m talking about— the severe anxiety you would get when you had too many pieces left and shit was about to blow up and fly all over the place. Damn, I swear, […]

This past Sunday, I had a 1:00pm brunch with family at City Crab on 19th & Park Ave. While I doubt seafood would qualify as good breakfast food, it did work well for lunch since I already ate breakfast at 8:30am.
The thing that made the meal bloggable was that live jazz was playing while we […]

Nothing quite like that feeling that everyone in the world could give two shits about your cause, no matter how hard you try. I mean, sure, family and friends always offer support, but if they did not know you from a fly on the wall, would they be as gracious? Would they be just like […]

I see the signs of a friend worn on the bent magazine corners of empty promises and work stress. Enough caffeine to throw a horse’s heart out of its finely musculared chest, yet so little actual credit in your pocket that all immediate goals seem like smoky delusions of an old transformer fanatic’s mind drifting […]

Name recognition as an artist or a novelist is golden like grahams from a cereal infestation on your cupboards. Most people use that recognition to inflate their ego, because let’s face it—our society is based on self-glorification, it’s the backbone of our collective American dream. Don’t think that freedom is the only motivation for people […]