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The Incompetent Psychic

The Incompetent Psychic

How to—and how not to—navigate a freelance creative vocation. Despite faulty CosmicMessage functions, Mernie tries to hear the angels… and the dogs.

2020

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Mernie Buchanan

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Thought Thinkers

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Mar 24

In Defense of Tobacco

What if oil, alcohol, sugar & gun lobbies lost the culture & tax war instead?

In Defense of Tobacco

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Thought Thinkers

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Feb 25

An Artist Died

I can’t spin my feelings to be social media correct

An Artist Died

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Thought Thinkers

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Nov 30, 2025

Inner Voice Volume Levels: From Disingenuous to Danger

My viscera whispered correctly about Chopra

Inner Voice Volume Levels: From Disingenuous to Danger

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Life Without Children

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Oct 16, 2025

I Paid an Expert to Ask, ‘Why Don’t You Have Kids?’

Does no one ask, ‘Why did you choose to be a mother?’

I Paid an Expert to Ask, ‘Why Don’t You Have Kids?’

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Aug 1, 2025

Corporations Got Way More Powerful Than The Mob

And nowhere near as polite. RIP Tropicana Resort & Casino.

Corporations Got Way More Powerful Than The Mob

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Apr 7, 2025

I've been creating original art & illustration professionally and on spec since the 1970s, so the…

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Apr 2, 2025

To avoid feeling like a victim of corporate abuse, I 'redirect' my spending to companies that…

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Mar 28, 2025

This is hysterical for more reasons than I feel like highlighting.

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Mar 24, 2025

Can we take into consideration that boycotts are often redirected spending that benefits…

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Feb 23, 2025

An Empire Falls. Again. Any ideas? Anyone?

How can poetics & the multi-media arts educate, inform, even warn communities about demagogues and the concentration of dictatorial power?

An Empire Falls. Again. Any ideas? Anyone?

Mernie Buchanan

Mernie Buchanan

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BA in art when they were affordable (they're never practical). Bonus? 1000s of paintings & drawings later lets me totally ignore AI & Unsplash I'm at mernie.com

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