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Mississippi Revising
The following contains discussions of the endings of the movies Mississippi Burning, The Help, and Django Unchained. This maybe isn’t such a big deal since their endings are all eminently predictable if not a matter of historical record, but in … Continue reading
Fortune cookie fortunes that are improved by adding the words “in bed”
The sound of your voice puts people to sleep. You talk to yourself and don’t even realize it. You have a tendency to drag things out but maybe that’s not always such a bad thing. You’re the kind of person … Continue reading
We are All the Artists of God’s Love
Years ago when I was an undergraduate at my big-name second-tier Ivy league college I was sitting around with my fellow undergraduates over pizza talking about what makes life meaningful, like you do. There was a general consensus that creativity was an … Continue reading
The Fat Lady is Jesus Christ
Salinger’s vast public, I am convinced, is based not merely on the vast number of young people who recognize their emotional problems in his fiction and their frustrated rebellions in the sophisticated language he manipulates so skillfully. It is based … Continue reading
The Folk Tradition
Down at my parents’ home south of Austin for a few weeks. In the evening as we’ve always done, my father and I play guitar. He sings and plays rhythm on the vintage Kay archtop while I play lead on … Continue reading
Propaganda, Professionalism, and Zero Dark Thirty
I have a fascination with procedurals about terrorism. I have watched The Baader Meinhof Complex and the miniseries Carlos three times each and have now gone to see Zero Dark Thirty in the theater twice. These movies have much of the … Continue reading
Walt Whitman Fails Astronomy
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, What is the situation here? The lecture-goer is attending a talk on astronomy but does not appear to be an astronomer himself. I see two … Continue reading
Forever 1951
For the past week my wife has been listening to Christmas songs on Pandora, and she’s merciless with the skip song button. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and Nat King Cole are spared. Harry Connick Jr.’s arch conservatism saves him, and a bluesed-up … Continue reading
The More Things Change, 1850′s Edition
The best part of Moby Dick is the beginning, before the characters head out to sea, when it simply follows Ishmael and Queequeg as they amble around the east coast in the mid-19th century. On the opening pages, Ishmael imagines … Continue reading
Taylor Swift: It Gets Better
Taylor Swift is mostly someone who plays in the background at the gym for me. I don’t really attend to her. But late last year I learned a song to play at a friend’s daughter’s eleventh birthday party and so … Continue reading
