Category: absence

• R.I.P. Malika J. Mooney

  Aug 30

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• LMP

  Jan 17

  Here’s something I wrote almost 17 years ago as part of a larger project about identity, specifically about my identity. Lisa Marie Presley and I were born on the same… more ›

• Reading Heidegger

  Jun 8

  You won’t have read Heidegger until you’ve (also) read Being and Time. There are two routes toward reading B/T: 1) just read the damn thing, or 2) ease into reading… more ›

• “The sea was more important now than the shore.”

  Nov 6

  Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly by this passage: Whenever she [Lily] “thought of his [Mr.… more ›

• Physical/Labor

  Oct 3

  As many books about the subject can attest, performance art calls into question passed-down notions of identity and subjectivity. At one extreme, the art attempts to dislocate (if not outright… more ›

• Burden of Light

  Aug 10

  “A figure dressed in white, walks along the white line in the middle of the highway. He becomes visible only when sporadically lit by the headlights of on-coming cars.” From… more ›

• In Memory of Little Beasts

  May 16

  I’m devastated, and I’ve been bawling my eyes out for days now. I went to bed Friday evening sure that my little family was safe and well, only to lose… more ›

• SD1-989, or Why I Cried During the Slowdive Concert

  May 7

  Slowdive Concert, Granada Theater, Dallas, April 2018 I see several concerts every year, and I recently saw Slowdive for the second time live. Near the end of the concert they… more ›

• Memories of Uncle Bob

  Dec 26

  Last week we buried Uncle Bob. Despite the fact that the bar was ridiculously low, he was nevertheless my favorite uncle. Two of my earliest memories are of him. I… more ›

• Tres libros

  Oct 3

  I recently read three short books, all fiction about Mexico: the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman), the collection of short stories… more ›