Writing

“When Picasso reworked Velazquez, Delacroix, and the other Old Masters, he seemed to be devouring them, appropriating and digesting for his own use their mysterious essence.”-Calvin Tomkins Read more

Watching this video of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney on Charlie Rose (I think from July 2006), I was struck by these comments Charney made in response to a question about why American Apparel was so successful (my transcription):"Its the [...]  Read more

A common topic of conversation these days seems to be whether or not we are in another tech/Internet bubble. Famous industry names have weighed in such as Forbes/Karlgaard (not sure), Scoble (yes but its different this time), Kedrosky (not only [...]  Read more

Take an old blues/jug song, combine some John Phillips Monterey Pop mojo with a few music freaks from the penninsula, and this is what you get: Read more

Carmun is a wonderful service (where I am a founder/investor) with alot of potential. Call it social networking for brainiacs, the yin to the Facebook yang, whatever . . . but its goal is to create an online community for [...]  Read more

Unable to know is a condition I’ve lived inAll my life; it is a povertyOf imagination about the life of another.This is, I think, the case with everyone.It is because there is a silence that weAre all of us forbidden [...]  Read more