Category: sign o’ the times

• Shit Writer

  Dec 10

  I don’t consider Fernando Sdrigotti a friend. I’ve known him for a a few years, sure. Mostly via Twitter and several emails. He’s edited my writing. I think calling him… more ›

• Late Modern Sculpture

  Dec 22

  It seems that I’ve gotten several new visitors to this blog from the TOL article on Prague’s late communist public art. Here are two more works that I spent a… more ›

• To Term

  May 30

  Words were released today, words one should avoid online unless one preferred unnecessary governmental intrusions into one’s personal life. One should always avoid the unnecessary. But some basic words should… more ›

• Crisis of Meaning (And Yes, You Will Misunderstand)

  Jun 2

  Churches contribute to gay suicides, most Americans believe. I wonder if blaming region also somehow gives it more power or credence in the lives of those who would commit suicide. It… more ›

• Election Coverage: Full Disclosure of H8, or California Goddam

  Nov 8

  Despite the false headlines in The New York Times Wednesday morning, Obama has not moved America beyond race politics. Very little has changed as far as the electorate goes. Otherwise,… more ›

• Project Blog It: September

  Sep 19

  What do we even mean by the term September? The seventh month? Unless I’m counting on my fingers incorrectly, this is the ninth month. And what about that so-old-as-to-not-even-be-archaic suffix… more ›

• Courtyard Catastrophe

  Jul 24

  Holed up in this hole of a hotel all day has allowed me to transcend my normal, everyday sort of asocial behavior and arrive at a point of pure misanthropy.… more ›

• Roll Call, or Lax Americana

  Jul 9

  Welcome to Amerika, where everything is so easy … So easy. So easy for a democracy to vote itself out of existence. So easy for self-righteousness to point toward terror.… more ›

• Indefensible Offense

  Apr 30

  Obama, radical leader of the Obamanations, has finally denounced his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, because of assertions the reverend has made about the United States’ role in worldwide… more ›

• 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 ›