Category Archives: Art I Like

Movies Are Us

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Just watched ROADBLOCK, 1950, a Howard Hughes noir.  Great fun.  A few plot holes but not threadbare.  Scads of sharp, laugh aloud dialogue and a few twists and reversals to keep things lively.  Best film from a B director who … Continue reading →

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Tic Tac Disclosure & Whistleblowing

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Gene Stewart

So there is the Tic Tac UFO event(s).  Happened, it seems, off the coast of Southern California.  Involved the Nimitz carrier group during an exercise.  Shapes resembling tic tac mints, stubby rounded cylinders, did amazing things to disrupt the group’s … Continue reading →

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Dark Twisted Roots of Synarchy

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Trump parallels Putin in animosity toward liberal democracy and dropping false structures.  They are rigid control freaks desperate to impose stricture via structure:  theirs.  Synarchy is their philosophy and goal:  total hierarchical control with a caste system. Dream journeys to … Continue reading →

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Property’s Dissent

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Lilly & Her Ball/Distraction:  Property We went to The Moon, yes, but we also may have faked what the public saw, for two reasons: Nixon was thus ensured good media, and a covert military mission could be performed out in … Continue reading →

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Two Poems So Far Today

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Gene Stewart

UNFINISHED PAINTING by Keelan Thør Stewart, March 2018 We have never been alone. The mara, the faerie, the Djinn. The Horla, imps, the gnomes. The pixies, dryads, naiads, the sylphs. Demons, banshee, the Sidhe. Selkie, fetch, wraiths. Ghosts, haunts, specters. … Continue reading →

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Or Else

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Melodrama in Pulp stories focuses on conspiracy, unspeakable cults, and nefarious plots to control the world.  What strikes me is how accurate such excess can be. Look at trumpers; Putin’s oligarchs; gangsters; the Tongs; the GOP; white supremacists; survivalists; ISIL/Daeth; … Continue reading →

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REH, HPL, ERB, & Me

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Gene Stewart

  Started reading a collection of Robert E. Howard stories and must say, he was better than I’d recalled.  I’ve always liked his work, from Conan, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn and beyond.  The variety, depth, and the bravura … Continue reading →

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“An Unnoticed Disappearance”

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Untitled Nude, sculpture by SLE “An Unnoticed Disappearance” by Gene Stewart Marta drove onto the cape alone. She parked, cut the engine, and sat watching the sunset. She would miss the office party. Her absences had begun defining her more … Continue reading →

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A Call For Enhanced Optimism

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Gene Stewart

We all read Flowers For Algernon in school.  Daniel Keyes’s story of a man and his beloved mouse enhanced to genius, then reduced by the same drug to a descent into imbecility, is pathetic, horrific, and emotional.  It makes an … Continue reading →

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Writers Write

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Graham Greene wrote 1500 words a day, each morning, then played the rest of the day. Wrote them in a leather journal using a fountain pen.   Hemingway squeezed out words by the tens and hundreds, using a pencil in … Continue reading →

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