Stealing Like An Artist: book review, navel-gazing

[dancinglights]

I am slowly poking my way through Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, the first book of creativity advice I haven't hated in many, many years. (My mother-in-law regularly gifts us, and herself, with them.) The small tome is an elaboration on a talk the 'Newspaper Blackout Poems' artist gave to some community college students about plodding success

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[ravenblack]

A surrealist walks into a bar. The barman says "why the long clock?"

[ravenblack]

An urban explorer walks into a bar. The barman is hundreds of miles away and already dead, his position replaced by vines and dust.

[dancinglights]

This could almost be a spoiler for one of my favourite Carnivale episodes.