Archive - The Birth of Venus and Other Beauties

Writing Commandments According to Henry Miller

The writer's work program in the years 1932-33 is as useful now to every writer 90 years later

Mar 22 •

Houston's Museum of the Joke

The Shrine to Anti-Art at The Kinder Building

Mar 14 •

February 2024

The Painted Churches of Schulenburg

Another Texas Surprise Well-Worth Visiting

Feb 29 •

The Globalization of Parsifal

Houston Grand Opera’s Christian-Lite Rendition of Wagner’s Opera

Feb 6 •

January 2024

EDITING IN A NUTSHELL

The 1-2-3 Method for Substack Writers

Jan 27 •

Chinese-style Censorship and the Barbarians at the Gates of Substack

Jimmy Lai, Courageous Fighter for the Freedom of Expression, Yet Endures

Jan 16 •

5:55

Chinese-style Censorship and the Barbarians at the Gates of Substack

Jimmy Lai, Courageous Fighter for the Freedom of Expression, Yet Endures

Jan 15 •

Be Careful What You Wish For (Part 2)

Filmic Exemplars of Destructive Ideation

Jan 12 •

10:55

Be Careful What You Wish For (Part 1)

Listen now | Aesthetic Ideation Brings About Its Own Demonstration

Jan 5 •

6:48

Writing the Persuasive Essay

Cut, Impersonalize and Transform

Jan 3 •

7:22

December 2023

Houston Ballet's The Nutcracker

With a reference to Goethe on Byron

Dec 4, 2023 •

"Whatever good ye boast, that good impart!"

Writing as a Demonstration of Admirable Principle

Dec 1, 2023 •

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