David Given Schwarm

I have this horrible cold – ugly cough, can barely speak, body aches. Lisa and the kids had this last week. Being sick really limits my ability to get involved – I always feel like I have to shut down and protect what health I have – a real fear of over extending my self.…

started last night. likely last out the weekend. when one has kids rain presents all sorts of additional challenges – may be a mall trip will be in our weekend plans. I had a friend who was pissed off that the weather man lied about when this storm would start – all angry that it…

Tuesday I was going to pick up the latest issue of Art Forum – trying to get reconnected with modern art. It cost eight dollars, which does not seem that unreasonable. however, it is completely packed with ads. now my problem with the ads was not so much that they got in the way or…

The cult of Darwin continues to grow. by this I mean that basically there are three types of people in the world – people who think Darwin was the biggest intellectual of the 20th century, people that think Einstien had the most influence, and people who think Freud was number one. I would guess that…

So I am once again working on becoming vegan. It is working fairly well at work, but the temptation of cheese always gets the best of me at home – we need to have cheese in the house for the kids; thus, I need to come up with a strategy of changing my thinking so…

America is a land of masking jokers.

1. Art is not the sublime descent of the infinite into the finite abjection of the body and sexuality. It is the production of an infinite subjective series through the finite means of a material subtraction. 2. Art cannot merely be the expression of a particularity (be it ethnic or personal). Art is the impersonal…

You know there is something extremely fun about telling the future. And it is not just fun to try to guess the future, it is even better if you tell someone else what your prediction is – you let them on to your guess. Even if you are not correct, the anticipation created by telling…

I saw this at a matinee on January 19th @ 13:30. it was horrible – I actually think that it may have been worse then Catwoman. I have no idea why it is so hard for Hollywood to make a female superhero film. Ghost World is clearly the best chick comic film ever made –…