art [ahrt]
–noun
1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic
principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary
significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art
collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an
art collection.
3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and
architecture.
5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art;
industrial art.
6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any
art with the copy for this story?
7. the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning:
the art of baking; the art of selling.
8. the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9. skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of
conversation.
10. a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts
or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11. arts, a. (used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of
arts and sciences.
b. (used with a plural verb) liberal arts.
12. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from
nature.
13. trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.
14. studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15. an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of
politics.
16. Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.
Welcome.
You'll notice by some of the paralyzed links that this website is
currently receiving a facelift. Sort of like Heidi Montag from The
Hills. Hints the paralysis. Feel free to read the stories directly
below in the meantime (just click on the title) as well as my blog. You
can also visit me online at
The Nervous Breakdown,
Facebook, or
Twitter.
Selected Stories
The Black Thunderbird: Part I. The
Nervous Breakdown. 5 January 2010. About 2500 words. It’s Friday. It’s
late. And the party is over. Buckle up and take a ride with Jeffrey
Pillow and his friend Jeremiah on a drunken ride to remember. Assless
chaps, naked women and Willie Nelson included. Part 1 of 2.
The Black Thunderbird: Part II. The
Nervous Breakdown. 31 January 2010. About 6700 words. As youth, we think
we are invincible. Only when driving drunk through a gravel parking lot
at 50 MPH with a ditch line fast approaching while listening to Snoop
Dogg’s “It Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)” do we realize
we are indeed flesh and blood, and can leave this world having lived
pathetic, unfulfilled lives. In this memoir entry, Jeffrey Pillow
recalls a time when he and his friend Jeremiah take his black
Thunderbird for one last fateful spin. Part 2 of 2.
A Greater Plan: A Son Remembers His Dad on
Father’s Day. Ruse the Magazine. Press Media Group. The
Lynchburg Ledger. Southside Messenger. 19 July 2009. When I proposed to
my girlfriend of nearly two years, Allison Watkins, the weekend of the
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, it never occurred to me that in less
than two months my dad would begin the fight of his life as he was
diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML).
Rebels With a Cause. URGE Magazine.
Winter 2008. In 1987, an 11-year-old boy was diagnosed with HIV.
Sad-Eyed Wizard: The Story of Pete Maravich.
Press Media Group. Ruse the Magazine. 6-13 August 2009. Excerpt: He was
the sad-eyed wizard of the hardwood, wearing floppy socks and scraggly
hair upon his head, the prodigy child of his father, Press Maravich. To
a generation he was known as Pistol Pete, a soulful magician with a
leathery, orange globe ricocheting from the tips of his fingers to the
tips of his toes, the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history—a legend.
