June 22, 2017
Minor League Season Begins—Again
People asked Ron Shelton, again and again, if he was going to write a sequel to Bull Durham. He couldn’t bring himself to do it, and I’m glad he didn’t. […]
July 25, 2016
Majestic Waste
Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne (2011) album was a watershed moment in hip hop, specifically, and American culture broadly, though to say this is a bit redundant, […]
April 26, 2016
What Eyes Are These
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. –Genesis 11:7 (The Tower of Babel) Ever since you could […]
September 28, 2014
The Breaking of Jimbo: Some Thoughts on the Kathy Fagan poem “Road Memorial.” Part 1.
Early this morning, a few minutes before the alarm went off, or maybe a few more than a few, I started writing this post. I was dreaming the writing, which […]
June 30, 2012
“The real world we think we inhabit”
“We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit” is the old line by Feyerabend, discovered sometime in college, that often […]
June 18, 2010
Bringing the Dream Space into the Waking Life
I woke this morning from a dream of reading. I was reading a long poem, rambling and prose-like, its meaning fractured. The poem had a very specific form in terms […]
February 14, 2010
Understanding Love and Iceland (Translating Valentine’s Day)
In the past, February 14th has been the time of year that I have, in my way, celebrated valentines — despite its muddled origins and dreaded Hallmark affiliation, despite the […]