I've been on a tribute art kick. What's commonly known as 'fan art'. The reason I hesitate to use the term fan art is because fan makes me think of fanatic and that's rarely something I would claim to be of anything or anyone in popular culture. Of course, I like certain things. I've created many art tributes of classic jazz musicians and of the original Twilight Zone series, both I happen to like very much. Yet they're just tribute-aries that feed into the larger river of co

As I mentioned in my last e-letter, I became a published author (yay!) writing two books in the last year under the pseudonym, Jone Araya, a name I thought of way back in the 7th grade or as the kids of today would say, back in the Mesozoic era. Writing, like art, is not a newfound passion. When I was a somewhat shy and introverted teenager, I started writing short stories and poetry, finding more entertainment in what was going on inside my head than outside of it. It was a

Let's start with the obvious and prosaic: It's August. It feels like I've watched summer fly by from the window of a bullet train. Summer...