Back in Cleveland, and Ain't it Grand . . .

June 15, 2014

I'm back in the big, rusty playground where I was born, and there's so much happening that I've barely had time to catch my breath, let along update Intertexture with the slew of essays, articles, and rants and rave (reviews, that is!) which have been piling up in my draft folder.

Updates on new projects coming soon, but in the mean time . . .

. . . a beetle-goat!

. . . or just me, pretending, during Cleveland Museum of Art's annual Parade the Circle, the Best Fest in the North . . . east. Photo courtesy Scene Magazine — . . . or just me, pretending, during Cleveland Museum of Art's annual Parade the Circle, the Best Fest in the North . . . east.
Photo courtesy Scene Magazine

Photo by Philip Brutz, a real renaissance man.

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