A quick note to the semi-constant reader

Stephen King has locked down "Uncle Stevie" so just consider me "Cousin Steve."

By John Brosio

First, the image above: I just like it. It’s by my favorite contemporary painter, John Brosio. If you know that I also love the photographer Gregory Crewdson and the work of David Lynch, you can see that my overall aesthetic is spare and odd. If I were thin, I’d follow that up with “like me!” but I’m just odd, not spare.

This leads to the …