Creative Psychosis

I go online to purchase a new album, but am skeptical if it’s any good. Thus, I read a review on a corporate website, and then read another by an independent blogger. Both reviews offer good arguments for their opinions, but differ completely in rating the product. So who do I trust?
Reviews and editorial content [...]

I had a daily tearaway calendar a few years back for Murphy’s Law. Each day had a clever yet pessimistic quote on it. One day, I decided to cut out a quote and it’s been taped onto my cubicle wall ever since. The paper is now curled and yellowed, yet it still prominently reads:
Steiner’s Observation: [...]

USA Today reported that, at his appearance this weekend at the Star Wars Celebration III convention, director George Lucas officially announced that he has…
“given the green light to two Star Wars television series. First up will be a 3-D animated half-hour series based on his popular Clone Wars cartoon shorts. The second and most ambitious [...]

I did not know today, April 22, was Earth Day until I tore off the page on my calendar. Unfortunately, I wasn’t suddenly inspired to go outside and try to save the planet. I mean, I hadn’t even finished my first cup of coffee yet.
I was not even born when Earth Day was started back [...]

If you walk a pit bull around on a leash, even if it is trained to kill, it’s assumed the canine should go where you lead it since you are its master. But that’s no guarantee it cannot turn on you, sink its teeth into your flesh, and make you regret ever putting that vicious [...]

You could suggest it should worry me which news headline I found interesting today. But I confess that the Sixers making the playoffs was more exciting on a personal level than a new pope being elected. Does that make me a bad person?
You could chalk this up as yet another American mentality with little regard [...]

You’d have thought we were running on Quark Xpress upgrade time, since it took us so long. But at last, there are some painting samples online at Magic Junk.
http://www.magicjunk.com/paintings.htm
It’s just the beginning of course. The rest of the paint portfolio will go up as soon as we have the chance to photograph them and build [...]

I often find myself looking back in the past, and subsequently wishing I could send a hand via time-traveling DeLorean to my 18 year old self to smack him in the back of the head. As in “Why didn’t you do this?” or “What the hell were you thinking by choosing that?” But it’s part [...]

The following message is being brought to you by the theory of automatic writing:
The truth was pins puncturing the surface of sleevesand skin cried for mercy but no one cameand no one wept as weasels get away with more treats from your freezerand fried morsels from your crispy idea binbut being human is the way [...]

Our existence is surrounded with opportunities to make life altering decisions. If we choose to make a huge purchase, pursue a new career, or partake in a different way of living— they are all sitting right in front of us, just waiting to be chosen. Often, most people are afraid of the consequences of rapid [...]

I’ve had an iPod since November 2002, and it’s been amazing to me how they’ve multiplied in the time since. Back when I got it, I rarely saw other people with them… at the time, I suppose it was still too advanced for general consumption. There wasn’t even an iTunes Music Store yet.
But times change, [...]

One of the reasons I’ve always loved Monopoly was that it was based on Atlantic City, a town in which I spent a fair amount of time as a child growing up in New Jersey. However, after reading Newsday yesterday, I learned that the Grim Reaper is building a hotel on Boardwalk. So maybe I’ll [...]

Yeah yeah, I know the web is a composite of servers everywhere. But of course, since nothing in this life (or the next one for you reincarnated blokes out there) happens without cash flow, it got me thinking— who really owns the web? And I mean own in the sense that if a corporation withdrew [...]

The morning’s thoughts have made me interested in getting a question on the next national census— “If given the chance, would you rather meet God or your favorite celebrity of all-time in their prime?” You might think this is an obvious answer, but maybe it isn’t.
Of course, I pondered such a premise myself. It would [...]

I read today that Madison Square Garden is suing the MTA for agreeing to sell the railyards on the West Side to the Jets for a new stadium. You have to hand it to Cablevision, they’re stopping at nothing to try and keep their monopoly in the city…
To which, while I’m psyched to see an [...]

Okay, so maybe it’s a stereotype that Maine is the lobster capital of the States… but nevertheless, good news came to us late yesterday.
The first batch of Acryliture: Bite Size has been sent to an alternative arts venue in Maine for use in their Art-O-Mat machine. Now, you’d know this is a most stellar deal [...]

For anyone who has ever rode on the Metro-North (or similarly designed railroad), they’ve probably run across the Bar Car. For those that haven’t, the Bar Car is a segment of the train in which the standard row seats have been removed in place of a huge metal bar that spans the entire middle of [...]