In Case We Die
As overheard on the bus one day, on the way to pick flowers. I was reading a book and an extremely tall, Sammy Davis looking…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XIV. "Quiet Fights with Hemingway's Fame" A couple sits across from me in a café. While peering over Times and tea, I watch them quietly…
What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye
He's not quite thirty. He's lived in this town forever, it seems. He walked in on his best friend making love to his sweetheart. His…
The Alternative to Love
The first few listens to the latest release from Brendan Benson will send you to the bathroom to scrub the toilet, whirl you around the…
Wolf Parade EP
They call them teasers for a reason. Extended plays — something like sides with out-takes attached? When they were twelve inches and on vinyl and…
The Tricky Part
I thought a lot about the fantastic Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin during writer/actor Martin Moran's challenging, Obie Award-winning solo show The Tricky Part (an…
War of the Worlds
"I'm not gonna be exterminated." Sometimes I wish I were Steven Spielberg. He can make a film that steals shamelessly, even shamefully, from his existing movies…
Rize
"This is not a trend." Celebrity photog David LaChapelle's images are famous for their saturated colors and bubblegum expression of pop culture, and so one would…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XIII. "Art: Photography and Bright Plastic Bags" pho·to·graph n an image produced on light-sensitive film or array inside a camera, especially a print or slide…
The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
A young Englishman named Stephen Coates was on drugs in Clerkenwell when he met himself. Maybe it was the Stephen of the past, one who…