Loved BEGINNERS. My long lost friend (and cinematographer) Joaquin shot Mike Mill’s last feature (plus a lot of awesome GAP commercials), so I’ve long been aware and a fan. The film could have so crossed over the annoyingly quirky line, but instead was incredibly simple and sweet and extraordin...

That is one of my favorite lines from the episode of THE BIG VALLEY –– the first season finale –– where super-beautiful Audra (a pre-Dynasty Linda Evans) –– has to have her appendix removed on a train. I may or may not weave part of this into my newsletter this month, but I’ve always remembered watch...

I love that this is the opening of all the The Phantom Comics from the late 1930s (the first superhero ones after Mandrake the Magician). So if you’re coming in late: This Sunday had my appendix yanked out. Home resting with Belle (while answering agent emails as we close our book deal). Tomorrow (pr...

Somehow it came at an inconvenient time -– and I thought it might be too intense for any mood I was in –– but I avoided SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE when it came out, saving it for the right moment. And that was tonight … and it was GENIUS. And it felt like the story of my life. UNBELIEVABLY...

Those are what the Kimochi (“a toy with feelings inside”) Octopus called Huggtopus has for feelings:  Happy, Silly, Frustrated.  And if you’re having trouble sharing your feelings, you can just indicate them with those little guys. And that’s what Val and her parents gave me when th...

When you’re feeling a sick day (something that happens to me every three years) and your stomach is upset, and you’re drinking tons of herbal tea and bitters and other potions … I strongly advise you not to leave a cup near your stack of unwritten Xmas cards. Strongly. Fortunately, it tur...

I had a very productive day –– several client calls, lots of work for my January gallery show, ending with a dinner with Susan and John and Val and Clark and Jonah and his friend and Val’s parents –– but I have to admit that I’ve been meditating non-stop on all the life lessons from this week&#...

So says my friend, Daniel. And I did wake up at 5:30 am to teach.  I returned home and rested a bit before a client call and then a spontaneous trip to Cavallo Point to double-check the measurements of one of the spaces for my January through March show … And I learned that there was an odd space fre...

Literally counting down the seconds until 3:47 PST today when Mercury went direct. I don’t like to get too invested in all this astrology S&*T but … when your 2 month old modem needs to be replaced and the cable company can’t find you and you buy tickets to a screening that vanishes, ...