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Vonnegut on Occupy Wall Street

by | Oct 18, 2011 | cool, culture

Back in 2007 I posted an excerpt from an interview with Kurt Vonnegut just a few days after his death. With the occupy movement gaining steam, his words on the greed of American society seem prescient. The original link I had quoted seems down. Here is another link to...

Chuck Close on Inspiration

by | Sep 11, 2011 | art, cool, culture

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of...