The Philosobot's Glasses

I will be away from the United States starting January 2nd, as I'll be studying at Oxford in the UK. Blogging here will probably be infrequent (which you are all used to by now, of course), but I will be blogging some, specifically about my travels,...

I have some short fiction published in Gonzaga University's journal of art and literature, "Reflection." It is not yet available online, although it will soon be, and you can request hard copies as well, at this site.

Artists are stuck. Either they sell out, make a decent living from their work, and never produce something true to their own artistic integrity, or they continue to produce their own art, real art unique to them, and find themselves starving and homeless...

If something is not art, what does it become? Given my previous definition of art, there are many things which a more traditional definition of art would include that mine would not. Take for instance a song written for the sake of the audience listening...