“I think we should publicly shame him,” said one of our party. “Okay,” I said. “Why not?” There were five of us waiting to meet…
Back in the days when I played at the gilded trap known as the nine-to-five rap, there were often times in which my failure to…
Paramount Pictures Corporation holds co-copyright on David Foster Wallace’s “Host.” Nicholson Baker’s first two records, registered in 1981, were for two stories: “Snorkeling” and “K.590.”…
It is said that the Eunectes murinus — referred to by laymen as the anaconda or the water boa — spends most of its time…
Pardon the lack of new posts. We should have some fresh content here on Monday (along with two new Segundo shows you’re not going to…
This was roughly the view you received if you had the privilege of attending the Boxcar Lounge on Wednesday night. The venue was indeed shaped…
There is no entry today. I am now wasting precious hours trying to recover the folder structure that Thunderbird screwed up and attempting to quell…
Four new podcasts were released today at The Bat Segundo Show. And since we’re on the subject of Segundo, what follows is a short excerpt…
In 2005, film critic Roger Ebert ruffled a few feathers when he suggested that because video games require player choices, games are therefore an inferior…
To the person who developed the madly addictive Dwarf Complete, thank you for taking two hours and twenty-six minutes away from my life.
The reports promised snow but prevaricated. My mind marinated. You get that feeling when you are conned into picking away at a slice of red…
The first time I saw a quadruple jump performed live, I was barely a mile from the house I grew up in. It was December…
It’s been more than a year since the manboy cultural critic Lee Siegel was temporarily suspended from The New Republic for allegedly posting anonymous comments…
Like many statues nestled along the rectangular trestles of Manhattan’s parks, Karl Bitter’s bronze depiction of Carl Schurz — situated at the corner of Morningside…
The question of whether life represents a parabolic arc is taken up by Lenka Clayton and James Price‘s short film “People in Order” — in…
I lean into my computer screen chin on fist, eyes leveled. Before me, a woman lies face down on an unremarkable bed. A man moves…
(Note: The full interview excerpted here can now be listened to as the 172nd installment of The Bat Segundo Show) For my first 2008 interview,…
House Resolution 888 (presumably 666 was unavailable) aims to celebrate and glorify a little bit of that ol’ time religion in a very big way….
America’s troubled soul snaked around two building corners on a late Monday afternoon. It read books. It offered quizzical pikers when WGA strikers handed out…
It was an unwonted warm afternoon in January when my corpus decided that it required protein. My culinary id had screamed for the wrong kind…
“Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.” — W. Somerset Maugham…
Bear with me as the new incarnation is being tinkered with. Here are some links to recent activity. Recent Reviews, Essays, and Articles: “The Perils…
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