A Scanner Darkly

When it comes right down to it, if you place me in a line of strangers to walk through one of those weirdly lit passages to an airliner, likewise full of a hundred or more strangers of unknown mentality and motivation, I sweat. There are many things I would rather do,...

Odds and Ends

Herewith, a few cool things clogging the Intertoobz, rotorooted for your edification.First: Would you like a complete (120 hours) video introduction to modern physics from a Stanford professor? How about for free? It's the sort of thing that (all too literally)...

The chair's chair

I just interviewed Northampton poet James Haug about his most recent book. He is an exceptional poet. Here's one of Haug's poems for your enjoyment (more at this link): GARDNER EXCHANGEIn a field I was overtaken by a conviction that another field lay just...

Runnin' with the Devil

Why does Pat Robertson show up every time there's a disaster to tell people why he thinks it happened? It's like he's a compulsive nut who wants to make sure everyone thinks Christianity equals insanity. This time, Haiti was hit by an earthquake for the...

What would Woody Allen do?

The best take I've seen on tomorrow's special election is below, quoted from an email (forwarded to me by theater critic Chris Rohmann) penned by Peter Vickery. I am not a Green Party member nor do I share every one of Vickery's priorities–for me the...