Josh Shear – Final Archive – Page 25 – The final archive of the former JoshShear.com

Artists of our generations

I think every generation has a handful of artists they are lucky to have. These are people who are writers, poets, musicians, painters, photographers – often they do more than one of these things, and well. Sometimes they are people we don’t even know live next door to us, other times they are among the…
What are you afraid of?

I’m reading Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear. The book, which came out in 1999, has received lots of love from everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Michael Moore. The book’s subtitle is “Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things.” To tell the truth, I’m more skimming it, which is not really my style when…
The Great Pretender

It’s a little dreary out, but I took the walk downtown this morning. On the way, I was joined for a couple of blocks by a gentleman, perhaps in his mid-to-late-60s, clearly either drunk or high, who had been caught in the early-morning storm (you could tell because he was soaking wet). He was singing…

Artists of our generations