The New York Times > National > In One Prison, Murder, Betrayal and High Prose This article reminded me of one of my earliest (and few) mentors: Tom Utley, my freshman writing professor in Athens. He read voraciously and kindly… more ›

I knew all along who the next Pope would be: another self-righteous sexual deviant. Welcome to the club, Benedict XVI. more ›

Just for the hell of it, I encourage you to screw with the “barister partners” of your one-and-only neighborhood coffee shop (since that coffee shop undoubtedly ran off all the independent & individually owned coffee shops that dotted your neighborhood… more ›

I think I need to go to San Fransicso for a couple of sessions of this new treatment. Mz. Chrzanka, polish the whacking stick…. If not, I can always listen to SomaFM and pretend I’m already there. And already cured. more ›

The tightness and tension of my sternum finally just released as I began trying to articulate something that I’ve been thinking about over the past few weeks. When Jacques Derrida died, French President Chirac released a simple statement: “With him,… more ›

Several weeks ago I went to see les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. The first half of the program was nothing spectacular, but the second piece—“The Stolen Show Excerpts,” choreographed by Crystal Pite—was some of the best choreography I’ve seen in… more ›

Leave it to the queers to bring unity among the three Abrahamic religions! After millennia of wars and hatred among themselves, Muslims, Christians, and Jews finally have united to battle against homosexuals entering Jerusalem: “We can’t permit anybody to come… more ›

I am sheer insignificance. And I think it obvious that human life, as far as the universe goes, stretched across eleven dimensions, is fairly negligible. Just look at the tsunami victims: tens of thousands of people and not one single… more ›

The tackiest full-page advertisement in today’s newspaper is from Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft and seasonal decoration shops: “The promise in the manger, fulfilled in an empty tomb. He is risen!” In a much smaller font is a Biblical… more ›

Stephen, Kris & I went to the midnight showing of Donnie Darko at the Inwood Theatre Saturday night. I was never really interested in the film until our trip to London December 2003, when Gary Jules‘ cover of “Mad World”… more ›