Painting Pictures Is Not A Normal Job
Like everyone else, at a certain point, several hours in, you begin to wonder if doing your job is insane. And, like everyone else, the first evidence that it’s not is that you get paid for it.
When you’re a professional artist, however, the thought process doesn’t stop there. The fact is, doing enough to simply get paid [...]
That Whole Climate-of-Fear Thing Continues to Make Life Less Fun
So, a few days ago, I posted this excerpt from an e-mail a fan sent me online (under the heading Most Disturbing Review Yet):
“In my dream of dreams, I’d order copies to teach in my creative nonfiction classes and/or my pop culture classes, but I have a feeling the provost would bitch-slap me if I did that. These [...]
Notes from the Book Tour
On the way home from book tour dates 3 through 5 of at least fourteen. An ingenious system of Chinese people has delivered us into a needle-nosed jet headed from SF back to Los Angeles. Mandy caught a cold somewhere along the line so, next to me, the most beautiful woman in the world is [...]
