Greetings Planet FOMO! Not super important but is there something we call ourselves here at Planet FOMO? Like, are we FOMites or FOMOteers or…Planeteers? FOMers? I wasn’t sure. Leave me a comment so that myself and the admins can know what you wanna be called. Otherwise I’ll just treat you all like my cats and… Read More A Bunch of Feelings to Hit You in the Feels–Probably
Hello Internet Peoples! Holy crap, it’s already May. Where did the time go? That, I do not know, my dears. What I do know is that with spring cleaning comes big decisions. I threw out most of my old law school books (good riddance) and mailed out many of the postcard paintings I’ve been doing… Read More Art in the First Quarter
While easily associated with the affluence of Silicon Valley and the glitzy nature of Hollywood, California is a state best read at street-level, the real and the mundane, about those who are trying to make it so desperately. The New York Review of Book’s reissue of Fat City, Leonard Gardner’s one hit wonder of a… Read More Fat City: Not Your California
Coach Westfield For Prison!… Read More Shooting With The Stars: Steve Urkel Edition
Vikings repillaging a town. Child molestation at a traveling fair. A fraternal feud at its culmination. Wells Tower’s eccentric collection of nine stories comprises what it means to be human and flawed in our relationships, romantic or not. Laced with crisp aphorisms and provocative analogies, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (2009) cements Tower as a master… Read More The Power of Our Wants: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Shooting With The Stars is a series where we analyze the technical basketball skill and the ins-and-outs of the basketball competitions we see in movies and television shows without any consideration for the context and overall plot. The stakes are high and the game is crammed with four hundred years of tension. At the famous… Read More Shooting With The Stars: American History X Edition
“Do you know I and I?” –Bunny Wailer A good essayist has a knack for honesty, but John Jeremiah Sullivan, American magazine writer, concentrates honesty in its purest form, mixed with a little entropy and dashed with brilliant confessional writing. To say that the good essayist is daring, would not be doing Sullivan’s brazenness justice.… Read More Pulphead: Essays from the B-Side
Hello everybody! I trust you all had a good week. Mine was pretty okay. I started a new job a couple of weeks ago that allows me to keep the lights on while I paint, my partner happy, and my cats fed. That being said, I don’t have as much time to paint as I… Read More To Calm the Waters
This is a list of books, curated, read, and reviewed at the biased discretion of a man who cannot be still.… Read More The Best Books of 2017, A Very Biased List
Another week has come to an end. And before I treat myself to some American Horror Story, I promised myself I would post the art I was working on last week. You will probably notice the type of mood I was in while creating it as it seems subtlety is not my strong suit this… Read More Inspired by AHS and the return of my Emo Days
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