Author: Andrew Taggart

• February 11, 2011

  So far, I don’t mind aging…

  So far, I don’t mind aging. I still have my health. No major injuries to report. No illnesses of which I’m aware (mental illness?). Nothing chronic yet. But then I don’t have health care. Haven’t had it for 8 years. (Has it been that long?) I’m sure the illnesses and injuries and catastrophes are all…
• February 10, 2011

  On the business of busyness, part 2

  Aphorisms 1. The one stuck waiting thinks he’s the better person. The one running late knows she’s the better fuck. 2. What would Kant have said about the almost-promise? “First, I shall make an almost-promise with the goal of almost-promoting my own well-being. Second, everyone shall make almost-promises with the goal of almost-promoting nobody’s well-being.”…
• February 9, 2011

  On the business of busyness, part 1

  New Yorkers are busy. I know this because they tell me. Daily. Hourly. Over email. Via text. Subliminally. They tell me they’re a little busy at the moment, quite busy all day, too busy this year, stupid busy, insanely busy, really really fucking busy. That they’re overwhelmed, overworked, have too much going on, way too…
• February 8, 2011

  Chuck Close on resilience

  In the 3rd segment of “Seeing and Perceiving,” an episode that aired recently on the radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge, the painter Chuck Close discusses his life in painting. In the interview, Close speaks candidly and Stoically about the spinal artery collapse that, in 1988, left him almost completely paralyzed. Since then,…
• February 8, 2011

  On English Breakfast tea

  The manly virtue of English Breakfast: black powder deep within the barrel of a gun, tobacco leaves lying in a pouch.