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Mark William Norby
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markwilliamnorby.com | Bay Area Reporter: ebar.com | Edge Media Network: https://www.edgemedianetwork.com | fairiesonice.substack.com | Agents: I write on madness, God, and sexuality
Cristobal Pesce—no other DJ.
March 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Mayan Calendar, Templo de Cobá, Yucatán
March 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
David, you will be missed. Thank you for the art.
January 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Always keep a diamond in your mind.
January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lake Of The Isles
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
My morning read ……………………………………
October 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Lake of the Isles. Cold day, low 50s with heavy winds. In a week, these leaves will be gone.
October 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM
“Les Distractions de Dagobert,” by Leonora Carrington. This exquisite painting sold Thursday May 16 in New York at Sotheby’s Auction House for a record $24.5m.
May 19, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Joshua Tree
March 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Joshua Tree
March 23, 2024 at 7:31 PM
“The only way you can describe a human being is by describing their imperfections.” —Joseph Campbell, as quoted by David Brooks
March 7, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Gino and I at the peak of Guanajuato
March 4, 2024 at 12:48 AM
“Art is so high and exalted for me; for me, as I have said elsewhere, it is the highest thing on earth after religion.”
—Adalbert Stifter
January 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Thrilled to have my articles syndicated in EDGE Media Network! Out of Boston. Massachusetts and distributed worldwide.
January 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Name that movie!
January 12, 2024 at 3:42 PM
What to do with boredom
January 2, 2024 at 3:25 PM
January 1, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Happy New Year Everyone! This will be a year of positive changes and brighter and brighter times to come. Keep the faith and be your optimal self. Cheers!
January 1, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Cool new ‘zine from Germany
December 31, 2023 at 3:37 PM
Me at 14,361 feet elevation, Annapurna Mountain Range, Himalayas, Nepal
December 31, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Poet and overall hell-raiser poet Allen Ginsberg is the subject of my new review in the Bay Area Reporter—the oldest continuously published LGBTQ news source in the Western Hemisphere. His personal archive is here exposed in the collection Material Wealth:
www.ebar.com/story.php?ch...
December 21, 2023 at 2:22 PM
AI and Survival of the Creative Arts

fairiesonice.substack.com/p/artificial...
December 13, 2023 at 6:05 PM
Looking forward to writing about the upcoming release Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. A never before seen collection of poems, photos — especially of the Beat Generation — and every type of ephemera you might imagine, this is a Ginsberg fan’s dream come true.
December 10, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Dear Shane MacGowan, I shall deeply miss you. Please raise your glass of Guinness from the other side! We’ll raise ours with you. Revel in peace and dance the Irish jig forever more!
November 30, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Click this link: FairiesOnIce.substack.com
November 22, 2023 at 9:12 PM