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Living the DREAM

November 30, 2023November 26, 2023 by James Baker
Living the DREAM

If I live to be 90, I will have spent 30 years asleep, and fully 6 years dreaming. Existing in an insane fugue state.

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Categories AutoBio, Essays, LEFTY Drawings Tags Life In A Montage 25 Comments

Benign Violations

November 19, 2023October 9, 2023 by James Baker
Robin Williams offers bum-wad to the Thinker

You can live without motor skills, critical thinking, or language, but you’ll need a sense of humour if you are to cope with living a human life.

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Categories Essays 24 Comments

Fiction in LIFE

November 17, 2023September 13, 2023 by James Baker
fiction in life

It is hilarious to admit it, but 13 year old me probably felt more engagement from watching “STAR WARS” than from any REAL event that happened to me in 1977.

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Categories Essays, Film/TV, LEFTY Drawings Tags Star Wars 10 Comments

the rude roommate

July 2, 2023June 30, 2023 by James Baker
advertising - the rude roommate

If advertising was a person they’d be the worst person you know. A gaslighting master manipulator. The last person you’d want constantly whispering in your ear. 

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Categories Essays, Film/TV, LEFTY Drawings Tags advertising 10 Comments

The Magnificent Loser

June 19, 2023May 31, 2023 by James Baker
A Magnificent Loser - NED KELLY

Human beings are all underdogs simply because we are all mortal, and decline is the inevitable end to everyone’s story arc. 

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Categories Essays, Film/TV, LEFTY Drawings, Reviews 20 Comments

Return of the Peregrinati

October 12, 2023March 6, 2023 by James Baker
139 Barney street Armidale

Any hometown is a memory palace, and moving through it unlocks feelings from long ago.

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Categories AutoBio, Essays, Family, LEFTY Drawings, Location Sketching, Photos, Travel Tags Alex Baker, Armidale, Dad, Jo Baker, Life In A Montage, Victoria Baker 16 Comments

Dance Of The Mayflies

February 28, 2023December 26, 2022 by James Baker
Mayflies

Coping with impermanence and helping others persevere through their own mounting frailties, is one of the main missions of being human.

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Categories Essays, Family, Friends, My stroke, Photos Tags Life In A Montage 30 Comments

Fake Faces

October 14, 2023October 19, 2022 by James Baker
Robo Yul Brynner from WESTWORLD

Horror movies work on human anxieties built into us, but why do we have the fear of the almost human doppelgänger?

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Categories Essays, Film/TV, LEFTY Drawings, Pin ups, TV sketching Tags Halloween, JourneyMan 21 Comments

The Grey Scribe

February 22, 2023January 23, 2022 by James Baker
A Fun Night

A troubadour bard accompanies us through life, composing ditties & tall tales of our deeds. 

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Categories AutoBio, Essays, LEFTY Drawings Tags JourneyMan, Peter Lawlor 18 Comments

Let’s see..

June 1, 2023December 26, 2021 by James Baker
Thalamus

Most things of true value in a human life are leaps of faith – in others or ourselves – and can’t be achieved by thinking like an accountant.

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Categories Essays, My stroke Tags Life In A Montage 24 Comments
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LATEST COMMENTS:

  1. James Baker
    James Baker on Living the DREAMNovember 29, 2023

    JD! I’m glad you commented on this one. Am I right that you had some sleep walking episodes in our…

  2. JD
    JD on Living the DREAMNovember 29, 2023

    Deft treatise JB and superb illustration - thank you. Most of my dreams are vivid, in colour & fortunately err…

  3. James Baker
    James Baker on Living the DREAMNovember 27, 2023

    Hey Dan! Glad you liked this one. I've been thinking about dreams a lot lately, and just WHAT they are…

  4. Dan McHale
    Dan McHale on Living the DREAMNovember 27, 2023

    Hi Jamie I enjoyed that piece. You did your research! I’m developing a short about a dreamer, just as an…

  5. James Baker
    James Baker on Living the DREAMNovember 27, 2023

    I've had flying dreams too, but I can only stay aloft by frantically flapping my arms. I never get very…

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