The Week That Will Change Everything
And on the first day, the Universe brought victory to the long-defeated. And so it has been done. They said it couldn’t be done, they said it would never be done, and it had never been done in this way, and yet it was done. I think Curt Schilling, our friend and confidant, said it […]
Read MoreAnd Now, A Word From My Mother
My mother’s encounter with the election seems to occuring through the celebrity exhortations to vote. That’s what happens to people with landlines and listed phone numbers. She emailed me this perspective from the Boomer Generation today. A young woman doing telephone solicitation for NOW called and painstakingly explained to me how many women died before […]
Read MoreCurt Schilling, Our Friend and Confidant
Watching Curt Schilling’s commanding performance last night made us wish that he wasn’t just Curt Schilling, ace starter for the Boston Red Sox, five-time All-Star, four-time top-5 finisher in the Cy Young Award voting, 20-game winner and 2001 World Series MVP, but Curt Schilling, Our Friend and Confidant. Curt Schilling pitched so well, even though […]
Read MoreIf you are feeling down…
Go drinking all night with some Scots (and Brits and Irish) who are perfectly willing to hear you pontificate on the politics of your fucked-up country in a midtown diner in the pre-dawn hours. Make sure one of these Scots is an old, dear friend you haven’t seen in years. Your faith in everything will […]
Read MoreNO TEAM HAS EVER
In the back room of the bar in New Jersey last night, a hoarse-voiced man was singing about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of pain, the kind of pain that does justice to metaphors about the bottom of the ocean and the blackness of the night. In the front of the bar, on […]
Read MorePrivacy
There is a lot of interesting flap about Kerry’s remark in Wednesday’s debate regarding the fact that the Moron Puppeteer of Evil’s daughter is a lesbian. Like most flap, it illustrates our confused zeitgeist on the matter. Is Lynne Cheney ashamed that her daughter is gay? Is Mary Cheney insane or does she just like […]
Read MoreObserving
And now let us pause, briefly, and remember a time before Homeland Security, a time before this was the homeland, before this land was the center of our empire, a stronghold from which our empire could invade other countries, kill the people there and get away with it by calling them “savage,” or some new, […]
Read MoreIgnorance is Bliss
It’s Friday night and I’ve declined socialization to wash my hair and tend small fires in my house. Very small fires–the one under the coffeepot, the one in the incense holder, and the one that rests in the ashtray. Smoke is curling pleasantly around the room and I’m ignoring my just-washed hair in the hopes […]
Read MoreComing Soon…A Brief, Passionate Word About Movie Previews
I love movie previews. I love the green screen with the words: The Following Preview Has Been Approved for All Audiences by the Motion Picture Association of America. I love the very rare red screen that denotes that the preview itself has been rated “R.” What does that mean? Do these previews have bare butts […]
Read MoreJay Leno, The Man Who Defamed Me
Earlier this week, when I read on the covers of other subway riders’ copies of the Daily News and New York Post (having sworn off all news media until after the election as a precautionary measure against apoplexy) that Jay Leno will hand over the reins of The Tonight Show to Conan O’Brien in 2009, […]
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