Tag Archives: reality

Are You An Imaginary Playmate? A Non-Playable Character? A Monetized Cluster of Pixels?

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Gene Stewart

Distressed because a familiar face from a media feed has gone dark? Y’know, TV personalities, movie stars, online images, all are interchangeable. Having an emotional attachment to an image is self-sabotage, a sucker’s bet, notwithstanding “Pictures of Lilly” by The … 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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Remember the Future

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Remember the future, Anticipate the past, But always inhabit the present As if you are the whole of reality, Which is a solid. / W B Kek

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Huxley’s Hinges: An Essay Toward A Coherent, Inclusive Reality

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Drugs let you dismiss what you experience while they affect you.  Under the influence, we say.  We blame intoxication, a poisoning.  Some drugs we call hallucinogens.  They engender false visions, we claim.  Drugs let us deny what we experience because … Continue reading →

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Between Blinks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Art is more important than history. What you create matters more than lies agreed upon. The notion of history is bogus. It is simply lack of imagination all around to think the stories told of earlier times are any more … Continue reading →

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Heads-Up World, a Rat Stew column for Tom Sadler’s The Reluctant Famulus

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Rat Stew by Gene Stewart “Heads-Up World” I got a Nike wrist band for Yule. It is a watch, showing the time, and strongly water resistant. In addition, it collects a set of data on how much one moves and … Continue reading →

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Hephaestus In Despond

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Gene Stewart

When nothing is left But blunt reality We see We stand on rocks Slick with slime In a tidal pool Warmed by a Bloated sun, the air A dance of humidity, Our sky electric with Lightning, dark with smoke From … Continue reading →

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The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, A Review

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Gene Stewart

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman William Morrow, 2013, 178pp hc, First Edition ISBN: 973 0 06 225565 5 $25.99 (a bargain at twice the price) A Review by Gene Stewart Our narrator at the start … Continue reading →

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Ghosts, Okay, But Ghost Clothing?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

This was a famous point raised by a Scottish professor when asked his objection to thinking ghosts are real. All he said was: Ghost clothing. Clothes are not alive and don’t die, so how can they produce a ghost? That … Continue reading →

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Got A Light?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Gene Stewart

I broke down and cried in the car after the radio hit me with the double-whammy of “The Pretender” by Jackson Browne and “Roadhouse Blues” by the Doors.  Unblinking vicious truth followed by a hefty dose of fatalistic nihilism, y’know? … Continue reading →

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