The Monster a Child Knows Best January 16, 2010

The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. —Bruno Bettelheim

the kingdom where nobody dies January 3, 2010

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. —Edna St. Vincent Millay

Holiday Greetings from AmeriCamera December 25, 2009

AmeriCamera Recording Session: Product Placement December 21, 2009

AmeriCamera Project Product Placement Executive Paul Darrow cut deals with sponsors between takes.

And sallied from the gate December 10, 2009

Captain Carpenter got up on his roan And sallied from the gate in hell’s despite I heard him asking in the grimmest tone If any enemy yet there was to fight? —John Crowe Ransom

the presentiment of its end December 7, 2009

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. —August Strindberg

the last romance December 3, 2009

The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up. — Adam Gopnik

the score December 1, 2009

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. —Henry Miller

Easy December 1, 2009

Easy is the descent to Hell. —Virgil

a renunciation of instinct November 30, 2009

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. —Sigmund Freud