I have something in common with a Fox News commentator I will call Mr. Bill.
It is true we do not share a world view. Mr. Bill would consider me a godless, baby-killing, shrill, morally bankrupt whore-of-Babylon. I consider Mr. Bill a carnival barking troll hurling excrement at the bars of his own twisted freak show. [...]
Barnaby
His name on my schedule surprised me that morning. I figured it must be him, because even in NYC there can’t be that many people with his name and general age. When he showed up my suspicion was confirmed.
Barnaby was a friend of mine. Not a close friend, but we had hung [...]
A kiss. All I wanted was a kiss.
The moment we first met, it became clear to me that he was a stone-cold fox. So naturally, I was curious as to his bussing abilities. I had no plan, no scheme to get him into the sack or anything. Really, I was open to anything that might [...]
Being only sporadically and idiosyncratically educated, I’d never read or seen anything by Henrik Ibsen before last week, when I went to see Hedda Gabler at BAM at the invitation of some Internet friends.
When I arrived at the theater I discovered that this production was in German. I panicked a little (even though there were [...]
Sasha Frere-Jones seems at a bit of a loss writing about Joanna Newsom in this week’s New Yorker.
“At first,” he writes, in what are, unfortunately, the article’s best lines, “she sounded to me like Lucille Ball reciting Edmund Spenser. She brought to mind a college student I knew who wore suspenders to show that she [...]