BillHeise | November 17, 2011
I’m a contrarian, so I’m always surprised when anyone understands what I understand about the world; but it appears that Bryan Appleyard has written an article that aligns so closely with my feelings on the history of aesthetics that I thought I’d it review it here. It appeared in the Intelligent Life supplement in the [...]
BillHeise | November 2, 2011
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been attacked as a ‘no-solutions’ guy by none other than Roseanne Barr. Adam’s solution had been to “take back” [...]
BillHeise | March 21, 2011
I love European music, but I find it a little limiting. For instance, I had said that Nina Hagen is one of my favorite musicians on account of her range of musical styles, but as far as her ends in a mix of Indian religion and Christianity I remain skeptical. That doesn’t stop me from [...]
BillHeise | March 5, 2011
I had a thought this morning, so I thought I’d share it with you. I was thinking about how I don’t want to get murdered, because if someone murders me, then my life is over. You probably are concerned with getting murdered, as well, so we have that as common ground on which to build [...]
BillHeise | March 3, 2011
For anyone who is curious why I like to combine comedy with my deeper thoughts (if there are any) in Poker Tales, it’s because I wasn’t a very good student until I was 17. Then I learned there there were serious thinkers thinking serious thoughts. But 3 years earlier I had discovered the following Monty [...]
BillHeise | February 14, 2011
After 9/11, many authors rethought their positions in the world. Jane Smiley returned to books to make sense of her shattered world, and she produced 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. In it, she reaffirmed her belief in the essential goodness of humanity through a review of the best novels she had ever read. [...]
BillHeise | February 3, 2011
This post is part of a series in which I talk about the serious side of my otherwise silly book, Poker Tales. If you want to read all of my individual works on my individual chapters, or if you’re coming in in the middle and want to catch up, the full listing of all the [...]
BillHeise | January 26, 2011
This post is part of a series in which I talk about the serious side of my otherwise silly book, Poker Tales. If you want to read all of my individual works on my individual chapters, or if you’re coming in in the middle and want to catch up, the full listing of all the [...]
BillHeise | June 16, 2010
As you must know, I didn’t get my whole list of things to accomplish this week done this week. I got tired (which I expected) and busy (with things that came up unexpectedly). But I will get to them eventually. But I think I got enough done to make it clear why I have been [...]
