Returning for a moment to the stopping time theme...

Worth noting that stealing implies (or, at least, seems to imply) ownership, that time's owners don't seem to want us to make art, that creation is subversive.

Thank you Hugh MacLeod.

On porn, creativity, and getting feet into doors. Wow.

This is harsh. And probably too harsh. But it is, in its way, encouraging our great creative minds to live. And that's a good thing.

Image stolen from this post on gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod's blog, which I love. The blog, in general, that is. Not just the post.

There's a bathroom in my uncle's house that's definitely haunted.  By a friendly and fictional ghost.  Which is another discussion for another day.

Today's point is that the last time I was in there, I had a few memorable thoughts; I started wondering if that bathroom might be a particularly good place for ideas; and I decided it probably was.

And that's my first place like that, my first place to go to think or get creative, my first geographical muse.

And I realize that a non-trivial percentage of idea places belong to crazy people.  But I also realize that a not even close to trivial percentage of crazy people, at least by my definition, are easily as cool as they are crazy, if you pay attention.

So, yeah, I have an idea place now.  Or I'll be testing one out anyway.  Testing it out next time I'm visiting my uncle and cousins and have to poop.

Brilliant.  Like a carrot in front of a donkey.  Or a mechanical rabbit leading the greyhounds.

The creative life is uneven. You have a few short bursts of genius now and then, the rest of the time you're trying SOMEHOW to get the magic back again, mostly without success. It's exhausting. I am exhausted, often.

Hugh MacLeod wrote that the other day.  On his blog, which is awesome.  And in a post that's pretty heavily religious, which I didn't expect but kind of dig.  Because I didn't expect it.  If that makes sense.

Anyway, I like the observation.  Makes me wonder how many of us not quite artists can be said to be living the creative life.