RIP Walter Becker, Your Work Here is Done
Sean MurphyRIP 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...
July 28, 1979: The Long Way Home (Revisited)
If I ever need to check myself and consider what a privileged life I’ve led,...
July 20, 1969 or, One Small Step for Man’s Mind
Listen: there are people who actually believe that the moon landing never happened. Lots of...
Life Imitating Art: The Russiagate Floodgates
Toward the end of Sydney Lumet’s ’70s classic Serpico there is an unnerving scene that...
Cruel DeVos
I. TRUE STORY. MY WIFE teaches grade school. In addition to the stories I can tell,...