Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney

NY Times review of a show at the Whitney of German artist Rudolf Stingel that sounds really great: Mr. Stingel is also heir to the uses of chance and silence, or in his case emptiness, encouraged by the composer John Cage. This is perhaps clearest in an expanse of cream-colored wall-to-wall carpet that spent six [...]

Nuts for nut signs

The window display at Morrow’s Nut House near Union Square, San Francisco, complete with nut signs.

Seething Bay

Sneath Seething Bay, rapping in foglines, clutching its pieces before the shallow tempest. Emerald breakfast. Tripping on tripe, and sniping at the memory, long in the tooth, of car salesmen in gabardine reciting the company code as gospel on their way to another after-work alcohol tasting ceremony.

The view from my office window

Looking out my Igor office window across Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco at the end of a long day.