Living the Liminal

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The more I find out about bottled water and the environmental and human costs that producing bottled water incur, the more I am convinced that we - and by “we” I mean “I” - need to make some changes. Tonight I attended a meeting of my food coop and one of the items up for [...]

A toast to me for finishing my 8530 word short story “Subway Voices.” Well, the first draft at least, it’ll need to go through several more drafts before getting close to publishable, but still . . . yay me for finishing my first short story in a bunchload of years.
It’s a horror piece, and if [...]

. . . that taste great together:Link (This post dedicated to Jeff Jacoby for turning me on to The Flaming Lips and for seeing them live together at the 9:30 Club and for being the type of friend that makes me a better person. We’ve not talked in a while and I miss his rascal attitude that helped balance out [...]

This is fucking depressing:
In a survey of NYU students, Two-thirds say they’ll do it for a year’s tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.
That’s what NYU students said they’d take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an [...]

From an essay by Mark Morford:

True outrage, like
Olbermann’s, like (occasionally, hopefully) this column’s, like what
you should ideally be experiencing on a daily basis while Bush is in
office, is honed and sharp and poignant. It contains a powerful sense
of deeply informed decency, and therefore has a true feel for when that
sense has been violated. Outrage has [...]

Playgoer has been giving some good coverage/linkage on the strike.From the front lines, however, there is The Humble Nailbanger, whose entry “The subtle demonization of working people” is a must read on the issues and includes this incredibly “nail on the head” account:
During some of the recent talks, a head stagehand at one of the [...]

Last week sucked. I’ll write more about it in the future, but it was tiresome, annoying and for most of the week I wasn’t getting home before 1 am, and Wednesday I wasn’t home until 3 am. So yesterday, I did nothing but read and watch movies with J. It was probably the first [...]

Love him or hate him, Harlan Ellison says what he means and means what he says:

If I had to pick out a hero, Ellison would be on my short list. As a writer, he inspires me, but as a human being he humbles me. His willingness to spit in the face of authority, oppression and [...]

J and I watched Orlando this past weekend - I had seen it years ago and she had never seen it and lately we’ve been on a bit of a Tilda Swinton kick. There was one moment, when Orlando is standing in front of the gates to a huge mansion and the rain starts pouring [...]