Updates From the Front – Boxes, Day Jobs, and Re-Igniting the Fire
These days, if I see an opportunity to do something, I do it. There’s no hee-hawing, no agonizing over the pros and cons, or wondering whether it would be better to just stay in and marathon some mindless entertainment. This is a major departure from the person I was in my twenties – yes, that…
The China Question (Ethics, Manufacturing, and Making a Living as an Artist)
Unless labor, business and environmental conditions improve in a more permanent, widespread way, are artists just supposed to turn a blind eye to the labor practices that their money is supporting?
I read Hillbilly Elegy – and I don’t understand why it makes people mad.
Hillbilly Elegy is not an attack on the white working class, nor is it an attempt to scapegoat government safety nets or the Democratic party as the perpetrators of poverty in the United States. It’s a memoir.
The Boneyard Blog 