• Gay for Democracy

    I wonder if I’ll ever post to this blog again. I wonder if my days will ever stop being so damned full of foolishness and nonsense and incessant busywork. I wonder if I’ll finally slip over the edge of sanity… more ›

  • Y.O. y Yo

    Yesterday I went to hear Yoko Ono speak and be interviewed at the CAA Conference downtown. I’ve been a fan of hers for such a long time that I got all silly with a smile on my face when I… more ›

  • Fidelidad

    Just let me say amid the shouts of self-congratulatory glee across DC and Miami today: the problem with Cuba has never been Fidel Castro. Cuba’s problem has never had anything to do with anything as embedded in Cuba as Comrade… more ›

  • Skeptical to the very end

    Thankfully I shaved my head last week or I would’ve spent three hours last night pulling out my hair in the worst graduate class of my life. First off, there’s the Boy Wonder, named for a superhero with “spidey” powers.… more ›

  • A Valentine’s Day Revolution

    So six alleged terrorists who have been incarcerated for the past several years in Guantánamo will finally have their day in court, albeit a military court, but a court nevertheless. When will the confirmed terrorists who have been in charge… more ›

  • A walk down memory alley

    December 11, 1988, Sunday Four days offoreplayand by the end of the week …Is no one real anymore? or anymore real?I touch and tease and talk,But I don’t see him when he’s not there.And when he’s here his face is… more ›

  • Whither the Turks?

    During the forty-six hours I spent in Budapest in the winter of ’96, I befriended another American at the hostel who was traveling the world researching the history of coffee for a book he was writing. We decided to visit… more ›

  • A bad case of the hollows.

    Yeah, this band is rad. I love new music that gets under my skin. Angry words about how fucked-up stuff is. Makes me wanna burn it all down. Singing at the top of my lungs … before I cough up… more ›

  • Pitstop on the Way to Mensa

    My popularity has soared over the past several months, while my faith in such things as popularity has plummeted. When I was in high school, I always thought it strange that I wasn’t invited into the honor society until the… more ›

  • The New 30

    I think it’s fairly telling that I should lose my earrings just a couple of weeks before I turn 40. I had to remove them at the doctor’s office while they were taking an EKG. I wanted to get my… more ›