Realism Admirer Gifts

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

"Say, why don't we go see the Hopper show at the Whitney?"

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

Otto Dix

Gustave Flaubert

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

Pinocchio's Second Realization

'Half an optimist is an odd bird, Sarah.'

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

Japanese woman in minimalist house reads 'How to Clutter Your Life'

"I'm not going to lie. It took a large speaker's fee to get me to say your future is bright."

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

New from Low-Key Press.

City Bar and Grill - "Stop worrying, youth and enthusiasm can't compete with experience and treachery."

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

Platitudes for the hopelessly realistic. When life gives you lemons, get a gift receipt.

Frontispiece and Titlepage for Beardsley's Erotic Novel 'Venus and Tannhauser'- Not Used in this Form

"I have a list of downsides I'd like you to develop into a list of upsides."

'I love your poetry, m'dear - it's very Ezra Poundish.'

'Satchel, life is like a can of tuna...'

"Today, in all aspects of life losses outnumbered gains."

"I see fleeting moments of happiness in between extended periods of boredom and stress."

Warning Being Alive On This Planet May Cause Cancer

Virginia Woolf

"I dreamed Lucian Freud was coming to paint us."

"Oh well - same shit, different day. . .!"

Anton Chekhov

'To be built on this site - an exact duplicate of the building that was just turn down (we liked the international style after all).

'I'm going to have to let you go.'

Cover Design for the Yellow Book, Vol 1

Mid century modern. Midwest boring

Expectations vs. Bitterness

"Darling, a rather uncomfortable distance has developed between me and the furniture."

"It's no good, Martin, it's still in the room."

Gustave Flaubert.