The Light
It’s no secret to those who know me – or those who stand near me long enough to hear one of my frequent gushings – that I adore the show In Treatment. I think it’s brilliant. The writing, the...
View ArticleThe Requisite Juan Williams Post
I’ll get this out of the way first: 1. I love NPR. I am unable to list the number of times I have been educated, delighted, moved, fascinated and inspired by their programming – both news and...
View ArticleI’m kindof a bad person, I think…
I called a cancer patient a solipsist today. … But in my defense, she was being toooootally solipsistic. Like, really. It was an apt description. And: If you wanna be accurate here… I didn’t really...
View ArticlePins and Needles
Both of my legs fell asleep tonight while I worked at my desk grading papers. A deep sleep – each leg numb up to the cheek. Suddenly I had to pee. There’s no way I could walk to the bathroom. I tried...
View ArticleAigo, Aigo, Aigo
Holidays and Sundays (when we can swing it) are a bit of a ritual for my family. We always do the same damn thing. Everyone sits about, professionally Italian-American, eating some permutation of...
View ArticleNew Essay at The Nervous Breakdown
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View ArticleFarewell to All That Part One: In the Beginning…
I haven’t had a cigarette in a week, and while that may not sound like much of an achievement, it’s the longest I’ve gone without a cigarette in over a decade. I had my first taste of smoke when I was...
View ArticleThings I’m noticing in the cafe where I’m supposed to be doing my work but am...
1. There’s a surprising number of older men with neurological disorders here. I feel like they should be sitting around a table playing cards, while Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito argue in their...
View ArticleIt must be by his death…
I’ve made a decision that I sincerely hope I’ll stick to. A lovely friend of mine decided to cast me in a hefty role in his play. I’ll be playing Cassius in the Dead Playwright’s production of Julius...
View ArticleSnowflake
I am a straight, white male of upper-middle class means and European descent. Which essentially means, on some intrinsic level, that I’m kindof an asshole. It’s not intentional. It’s not a choice....
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