Category: celebrity

• 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 ›

• A Star Is Born

  Oct 17

  Watched the new A Star Is Born this past weekend after watching the earlier three versions over the past few months. There are some things the 2018 version gets right.… more ›

• Last night I dreamt that Johnny Marr loved me

  Oct 10

  For the past few weeks I purposely didn’t look up articles about Johnny Marr. I didn’t want to discover that he too, like that other person from the Smiths, had… more ›

• Project Blog It: Certitude

  Aug 29

  I am certain that Barak Obama and his Obamanations are quite nice people. Senator Obama unquestioningly and with certitude will defend Israel’s right to exist. Yet certainly Palestinians, too, have… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: There’s nothing casual …

  Aug 19

  … about being a casualty. Listening to these songs in the parking lot this afternoon made me feel a bit antisocial and embarrassed. I was sitting in the car with… more ›

• Project Blog It: Seven Dwarves

  Aug 15

  I couldn’t come up with the alternative Seven Dwarves’ names on my own, so I asked various family members–all who live in trailers in east Texas–to help me out. Here’s… more ›

• Y.O. y Yo

  Feb 23

  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… more ›

• I am the walrus.

  Dec 6

  There’s nothing quite as funny as the number of drugs I’ve taken over the past few months (years) to help me sleep. But the week of Thanksgiving, I stepped down… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 26

  It’s like, you know, flamenco piano: when you hear the first measures of just such a beast you recognize the form (flamenco) but don’t recognize the medium (piano) because your… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 12

  Well, I kept my cell phone on buzz from late September until today hoping that I’d get that call either from the MacArthur Foundation or Sweden. No such luck. I… more ›