Read on for some advice on writing poetry to avoid saddling readers with poems that ought to be ignored or burned.

Here's an invitation to listen to my second music album on YouTube, Vagaries of Deep Time .

Read on about the “remixes” of my first album that are out on YouTube.

Read on about my first music album, "Algos in the Cave," which is now out on YouTube.

Here's an article about Slavoj Žižek’s rambling about the “parallax view,” and a better way of dealing with natural dichotomies.

Here's an article about phony lists of the best art, and how real experts’ criteria for excellence can’t be gamed.

Here's an article about the Western canon, the problem with postmodern cynics, and the difference between art's historical importan...

Here's an article about why listicles are popular, and some of us nevertheless resent them.

Read on for an end-of-the-year update about some signs that the universe may be telling me to stop writing.

Here's an article that solves the mystery of the recent shift in Medium's boosting criteria.

Read on about cancel culture, the abuse of “blocking” writers on social media, and the secular humanist ethos of critical thinking that sho...

Here's an article about the strange disparity between between stories about maleness and femaleness on Medium.

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for m...

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the arti...

Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.

Read on about how busy consumers must choose between infantilizing infotainment and honourable philosophical and artistic content.

Here's an article about why only fake readers want to read while multitasking, and only fake writers infantilize their audience.

Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

Here's an article that delves into a case study of how muddled literary philosophy can get, using Alexander Bard’s and Jan Söderqvist’s...

Here's an article about the creator economy, the existential function of art, the internet's impact on writing, and the ironic down...