Cravenomena

Apologies are in order -- in a general way, to the readers of this blog for having failed to update it in recent months; and, more specifically, to Joey Myers.  Joey called Craven a couple weeks ago after having stumbled across Cravenomena.  In addition to saying some nice things about the blog, Joey wanted to direct Craven's attention to his Flickr account, where he has literally dozens of amazing photos documenting a childhood (and adulthood) obviously misspent in the best way. Do yourself ... Read More

For some men, it's Angelina. For others, it's J. Lo or Jessica. In past generations, it was Marilyn or Raquel or Farrah. For Craven, it's Donald the Demon. Standards of beauty are funny things, as hard to pin down as shadows. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," spoke the Greeks, and Shakespeare, Hume and Barthes all chimed in agreement. Craven finds one of his personal standards of beauty in a six-inch dayglo chunk of plastic molded into one of the ... Read More