When I say there are contractual-like terms and judicial-like sentences to being ‘crazy’ I don’t mean the colloquial version, but instead the clinical. I also mean sentences in that most common way, as in the language itself. Of course, the psychiatric world would say there is no such thing as being crazy, only a diagnosis […] Read More
How to be Relentless
I’ll be sharing a few audio stories from Open Letters to the Men of Craigslist, and selling books from the Memorial for Craigslist and some of the first work in a new series called Calendar Girl at the Stone Arch Bridge Festival inside A-Mill Artist Lofts on the first floor near the windows Saturday and […] Read More
This round-up story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune included my Art-A-Whirl® event Memorial to Craigslist. “The Craigslist personals section was once a bastion of cruising, sex work and weirdness. That all changed in March with the passage of a federal law to combat online sex trafficking, sending the personals into unending darkness.” – Alicia Eler […] Read More
MinnPost’s Andy Steiner wrote an article on “Memorial for Craigslist” focusing on its mental health aspects. Have a read […] Read More
Your Invitation Celebrate the life of the Craigslist personals section with other mourners during the Art-A-Whirl® studio crawl in May. Craigslist’s personals section has been dark since March 2018 due to new federal anti-trafficking legislation. This memorial builds on The Open Letters to the Men of Craigslist The project explores links between bipolar disorder, hypersexuality […] Read More
A Death Announcement The personals section on Craigslist has died. I found out almost two weeks ago from a long-time friend and collaborator. It went dark the week before and the New York Times wrote about its demise on Friday, March 23, 2018. The personals section is archived on the Internet Archives Wayback machine. Its […] Read More
At an artist friend’s party a few springs ago a woman with white hair asked me what kind of work I made. I told her about the Open Letters to the Men of Craigslist project. I told her how excited I was about it. I told her that it was important to me that experiences […] Read More
Some headlines of the moment: “Porn Star Stormy Daniels Is Suing President Trump Over ‘Null and Void’ Nondisclosure Agreement,” Time, March 7, 2018 “Lawyer: Porn star sues to clarify record on Trump affair,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2018 “READ: Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against Donald Trump,” CNN, March 6, 2018 “Porn star Stormy […] Read More
Truths I did my senior lit project as a story cycle about girls and Y2K as a spiritual experience. I believe who and where and what context and to whom we’re born to is one universal defining struggle. I think this is true even for those who have ‘happy childhoods.’ See Relating Narratives by Adriana […] Read More
“Bob has the expensive teeth of a much younger man.” – Melanie Finn, The Gloaming, 2016, p. 7 Expensive teeth are a status symbol. Finn describes this Bob, a white man on safari, as not taking great care of his health and not wanting to tip. Bob has a bit part in Finn’s book, but […] Read More