Category: identity

• The New 30

  Jan 17

  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… more ›

• Nothing to say about love…

  Jan 3

  This interview suffers from the “Dance, Monkey, Dance!” Syndrome: flaccid American asks the world’s greatest living philosopher (at the time) to perform for the camera on a topic he clearly… more ›

• Scars & Wrinkles

  Jan 2

  Several years ago I blogged about scars. Here is an updated engagement with that post as prompted by a question that came to me out of the blue (from where… more ›

• Year of the Whirlwind

  Jan 2

  In honor of a Japanese tradition I recently learned about, I have chosen sempū as the kanji to represent the passing year. Sempū means “whirlwind” and is written thus: From… more ›

• 15 Songs for a Solstice

  Dec 22

  …to help keep the cold in on the first day of winter. (As if most of us needed help with that.) Here’s to a new season of personal (and universal)… more ›

• Skin Deep

  Dec 19

  There are already so many things wrong with the story about the French woman who received the first face transplant. Like how did she “lose” her face to begin with?… more ›

• Excerpts

  Dec 16

  Something I’ve been doing for the past several semesters is offering excerpts of my academic work here at the end of the semester. When I’m not writing here–which is happening… 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 ›

• Thanksgiving Thursday

  Nov 22

  A random selection of music to be thankful for: “Beaten Thursdays” by Prefuse 73 “The Columbia” by Lackthereof “Elvis Cadillac” by Rickie Lee Jones “Four Three All India Radio” by… 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 ›