BillHeise | January 25, 2012
Hello, friends. Long time, no see. I’ve been working on my next book, and I haven’t had time to write anything in months. There are two reasons for this. First, I’ve been writing an academic book, and writing non-fiction is considerably harder (for me at least) than writing fiction. I wrote my first work of [...]
BillHeise | November 30, 2011
The Music Man is my favorite musical from my childhood. It came out the year I was born, and when I was very young, my parents shipped me off the the library, where they played movies for kiddies so that parents could have an hour off. I love this movie, but 25 years ago, I [...]
BillHeise | November 19, 2011
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the inequalities in income in America, I also feel that there the OWS people are displaying something of a [...]
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 | October 30, 2011
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer company in his parent’s garage, took it public, and drove the computer industry with his relentless vision, not on the [...]
BillHeise | October 25, 2011
I’ve been working on my first scholarly book on Spenser’s Book of Holinesse in his six book (and still uncompleted) Faerie Queene (I know; how cool am I?). I am going to publish this serious academic work before I publish my already completed satire on Art in the Age of Talk Radio, because in my [...]
BillHeise | September 29, 2011
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line where I am either conservative of liberal. According to this model, everyone initially agrees that I make good [...]
BillHeise | September 24, 2011
This is a rehash of my ideas on alienation and belief that I took out of a larger essay on Czeslaw Milosz, which I will publish soon. I believe in repeating myself, because people will eventually come around to taking me seriously if I repeat myself enough. However, after 30 years of trying, I have [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2011
I have been preparing a business plan all summer for my next book. This will mean sending out press releases, and I want to make sure that people know that I mean them no harm in my book, which I have titled Art in the Age of Talk Radio. The premise of the book is [...]
BillHeise | August 23, 2011
I have been thinking about shutting down my blog. Thinking is not acting, and I’ve decided that it’s a bad idea. It isn’t that I found out that blogging is on the wane, while Twitter is ascendant. I like the long form exposition that blogging affords a windbag like me. But I’ve been working on [...]
