Archive for June, 2011
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The Asiatics and the Occidentals
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the many great things about film is that, as a collage art, you can make one thing mean another, or drain value from an image or situation that once had great import. I had the pleasure of re-watching... -
Versions of Masculinity
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsIn New Orleans. Clouds like planes of solid atmosphere. The heat that sends you scurrying and then laying flat. An atmosphere of dazed reconciliation. My gay pride was spent here amidst sudden showers, and not knowing the gay scene at... -
Democracy
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe sound crushes. The beat bounces against your heart, tightening it. Passengers are gathered together in what looks like a technological nightmare–a nuclear power plant, perhaps. The colors in this great hall are phosphorescent and bleak. But this is no... -
Some Thoughts
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The Leaving
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No CommentsHow many last days one must live before it’s all over at last? There are so many endings. We “move on,” but the next occasion is ultimately defined by leaving as well. I am leaving: hard words for both the... -
Hutz
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No CommentsIn those days, we had dinner with the salt still on us. At Lundy’s, in Sheepshead Bay. We were the only colored family there. Salty and sleepy and unmindful of our difference in a world defined by Russianness. Outside, we...
