Eulogy for Lou Reed
I didn’t know Lou Reed. No, I never met the man. Yet I am certain, because of the authenticity I […]
Category: japan
Into the Past, Part I
I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve […]
Notes on the Fortieth Anniversary of Mishima’s Suicide
It’s difficult not to feel somewhat overwhelmed with ambivalence regarding Mishima: a gifted writer and a sensitive thinker as well […]
Diēs caniculārēs
In these dog days of July, I feel the heat dissipating every ounce of strength my body once contained. My […]
Bullet-Point Friday: Reading
Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo that it is something like a sickness to sit down at the beginning of the […]
I Shall Die
One of the first concerts I attended was a Peter, Paul and Mary reunion tour through Dallas in 1986. I […]
Nothing To Say
Two strangers hired to stomp around my attic in hopes of repairing the AC circuit board that was fried by […]
Two-Track Tuesday: Rising from the East
Bally Sagoo is one of those rare musicians and DJs who can take something as ethnically cramped as a Bollywood […]
Two-Track Tuesday: Rising from the East
Bally Sagoo is one of those rare musicians and DJs who can take something as ethnically cramped as a Bollywood […]
the grandeurs of risk
I’m convinced that such a circle [that is, the unclosable circle of an encounter, which revolves around the undesirable] only […]
