Just Say No or, What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction): Revisited
Sean MurphyLying in bed, thinking about geometry. Like: how my arm next to her ass makes...
Fairy Tales and Feeding Tubes*
The brief experiment with the feeding tube was sufficiently impractical and unsavory that it seemed...
The Boogeyman, Goonery and Five for Fighting
The ongoing three-part series of the life and untimely death of NHL enforcer Derek...
“I’m An Idea Man…”
Predictably, that bastion of sober, probing and reasonable analysis, The Washington Post (more on my...
Got Arsenic?
Seriously? This is why it’s increasingly difficult to take our cultural priorities seriously, because the...
The Past Is Calling: Reconsidering The Who’s ‘Quadrophenia’
Most popular Who album? No. Most important Who album? No. Most influential Who album? No....
Thanksgiving 2011: Some Things I’m Grateful For
The dogs in our lives. The ones who are no longer here, like Leroy and Terra and...
The Whiteness of the Whale: Remembering The White Album (Revisited)
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness,...
When Words Fail*
It will be okay. This is what parents are obliged to tell frightened children and...
Black Magic: 15 Essential Black Sabbath Songs
Yes, they created the template for heavy metal and thrash, but even now it’s instructive...