Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone: First Reading, Revisited
Sean MurphyFour years ago today. Thanks again to the Jasmine Café (RIP). Kudos to Reston legend Robert...
10 for NYC by 10, on 9/11
New York City would be unimaginable without jazz, and vice versa. Here then is a...
On Loving & Losing Man’s Best Friends
i. Schnauzers look at you. I mean they really look at you. Not through you,...
The Death of an Indestructible Dog: What Quinzy Taught Me (Revisited)
Portrait of the artist as a young pup. Wait, did I say artist? I meant...
RIP Walter Becker, Your Work Here is Done
RIP Walter Becker. Not many musicians were involved in a run as productive and consistently...
Donald Trump: The Man in America’s Mirror
i. Orwell, Again (Obviously) Even before the Reality TV circus American politics and, by...
August 26, 2002: Reflections on 15 Years
Fifteen years fails to satisfy, on both arbitrary and aesthetic levels. It’s not long enough...
Washing Dishes as Antidote for Apathy
Tom Sietsema, the excellent food critic for The Washington Post, wrote a fantastic piece about dishwashers...
How to Kill a Cliché: Celebrating Sam Shepard
Lee: …That’s stupid. That’s one a’ those?—?whadya’ call it? Whadya’ call that? Austin: What? Lee: Whadya’...
Celebrating Sam Shepard and the Artistic Life
First off, before reading anything I have to say, do yourself a favor and check...