Tag: creating

Making stuff: up, real, and nicely.

Salad Nights

HYPOTHESIS: A THREE-INGREDIENT WHISKED DRESSING. Experiment: Appropriate measures of olive oil, anchovy paste, and fresh lemon juice. Analysis: Something’s missing. Experiment #2: A dab of Dijon, a modicum of maple syrup. Conclusion: !!! Replication: You’re welcome.

Welcome to The Metaphorager!

THERE ARE THREE EASY WAYS to enjoy this pleasant mix of rusty recollections, offbeat observations, friendly particularism, tasty recipes, unpretentious poetry, and wry spirituality: 1) Click or tap this paragraph’s links, and/or 2) the pages / categories in the header…

Audiomobile

“COGITATE COGITATE COGITATE COGITATE COGITATE…” So ran one of the many “found sounds” (today called “samples”) on the pass-around tape collages that were a fringe benefit of membership in the Neo-Pagan Society of Diablo Valley College in the early-to-mid-1980s. (Accent…

The Zine Scene

A LONG TIME AGO, IN a post office far, far away, our mailbox was fraught with wonder and excitement. In those cultural Dark Ages of pre-public Internet access, creative folk could communicate through the medium of “zines” – homegrown/amateur magazines,…

Let’s Get Real

ON THIS DAY EIGHT YEARS ago, I stepped out from under the shadow of a decades-long cannabis addiction. And I haven’t been the same man since. Thank God. What brought me to that point was twofold: I decided that 1)…