The Power of Our Wants: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

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

April 2, 2018April 4, 2018 Michael J. ShymanskiLeave a comment

Shooting With The Stars: American History X Edition

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

March 28, 2018December 11, 2024 Norrin RaddmanLeave a comment

Pulphead: Essays from the B-Side

“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

February 14, 2018March 6, 2019 Michael J. Shymanski1 Comment

To Calm the Waters

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

February 11, 2018February 12, 2018 c4dabombfromguamLeave a comment

NBA Trade Deadline Hopes And Dreams

I hate to break it to everyone, but this season’s trade deadline is going to be a huge let down. The truth is there won’t be that many total trades. Blake Griffin will be the only star traded (definitely not Kawhi Leonard), and a majority of the trades that actually do happen will be moving… Read More NBA Trade Deadline Hopes And Dreams

February 1, 2018December 11, 2024 Norrin RaddmanLeave a comment

The Best Books of 2017, A Very Biased List

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

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Michael J. ShymanskiLeave a comment

Inspired by AHS and the return of my Emo Days

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

January 26, 2018 c4dabombfromguamLeave a comment

Haunted

Feeling a bit crappy today. It’s been a long week. So I did this. The image of the screaming man is not mine. I took it from the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Did anyone ever read those stories growing up? The illustrations terrified me. So… Read More Haunted

January 19, 2018January 30, 2018 c4dabombfromguamLeave a comment

Is this Kansas?

Water color, colored pencil, and collage. Lucy Claire Curran

January 18, 2018 LucyLeave a comment

Tender

Colored pencil and tempera. Lucy Claire Curran

January 18, 2018 LucyLeave a comment