“Out of our need we patronize our artists, we flirt with our poets, we petition our architects: ...
Latest blog posts
Lusty Colorful World
27 Dec, 2024
“The human mind – we have come to observe – tricks out distinctions in principles of opposition. ...
The Location of Wickedness
26 Dec, 2024
“Yet the world was a spectacle, its own old argument for itself. Endlessly expounded with every new ...
Sweet blessed day after Christmas, how grateful I am that you have arrived with my sanity somewhat ...
About Alan Ilagan
Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.