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BLOOD SPORTS IN A STARCHED COLLAR: SURREALIST ETIQUETTE 31 Jul 2013 | 07:37 am
A BEACH READ FOR SURREALISTS. Just the thing to tuck into while nibbling your lobster-telephone roll. “Blood Sports In A Starched Collar: Surrealist Etiquette.” TIME CONSERVATION KEYWORDS: Rimbaud’s ...
SKIN IN THE GAME: AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE IN BLACK AND WHITE 23 Jul 2013 | 06:51 am
If you read *anything* by me this long, hot summer, read this: “Skin in the Game: An American Gothic in Black and White,” my essay on the murder of Trayvon Martin. It’s a polemic, it’s cultural critic...
GWEEKED! 3 Jul 2013 | 09:49 pm
Zaniest. conversation. EVER. Mark Frauenfelder, the Dick Cavett of Nonlinear Talk and host of the Boing Boing podcast GWEEK, engaged me in the most deliriously free-associated, brain-ticklingly del...
The Taxidermy of Memory: “Castle of the Living Dead” 1 Jul 2013 | 07:03 pm
A NEW essay, equal parts philosophical investigation (of memory, time, and museum vitrines) and memoir (mem-noir?): “Castle of the Living Dead: Time, Embalmed.” Keywords: Taxidermy, photography as ta...
HELP WANTED 26 Jun 2013 | 08:10 am
Shameless Exploitation Dept.: I’ve Tweeted about the importance of paying writers. I’ve been twitted about *not* being able to pay photographers. Now, I’m doing The Bad Thing Again: advertising for...
Dude Food for Thought: Josh Ozersky on Bacon as Transgression, Gender in the Kitchen, and Guy Fieri 12 Jun 2013 | 08:44 pm
Read the inaugural installation of “Mythologies,” my irregular series of interviews with cultural critics, at Thought Catalog. First up: food scribe and cultural historian Josh Ozersky, the Macaulay o...
A Digression About Digression 5 Jun 2013 | 11:09 pm
A mini-festo for the digressive essay: “But I Digress: On The Point Of Not Getting To The Point,” new, now, at Thought Catalog. The Shining, Stanley Kubrick. Copyright Stanley Kubrick; all rights rese...
ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: WHY GLAM ROCK MATTERS 2 Jun 2013 | 06:39 pm
LIVE, NOW: ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: WHY GLAM ROCK MATTERS [KINDLE SINGLE]. BOING BOING‘s inaugural Kindle title, and my latest. CLICK HERE TO ORDER. Design/illustration: Mark Frauenfelder. © Mark Frauenfe...
Vitreous Humorist: Bunuel’s Last Laugh 30 May 2013 | 05:53 am
“Thank God I’m an Atheist: Bunuel’s Last Laugh,” the second installment in my “Self-Help for Surrealists” series is live, on Thought Catalog, HERE. Nut graf: Buñuel is a philosopher — a moral philosop...
ANGLOPHILIA MADE EASY: “ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND” 13 Mar 2013 | 02:41 am
DOWNLOADABLE* NOW, at http://amzn.to/ZxSYPE, MY FIRST E-SINGLE, a longform essay called “England My England: Anglophilia Explained.” (It’s available at iBookstore, too, I’m told, and coming soon to B&...
