The Old Ball and Chain Gang
The other day I found myself repeating just the kind of paranoid macho crap I’m always railing against. A friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while asked how things were going with Anja (my sweetie for a year this coming Thursday!, for those of you who...The beginning of an essay I'll never complete about Texas and masculinity and other things too
My first night in Texas, in January of last year, I was taught to shoot a pistol by the father of the ex-boyfriend of my fiance outside a tiny home in the middle of a mostly abandoned ranch in the farm country outside Gainesville. Coyotes weren’t baying outside,...The post-colonial semiotics of plugging away on a sticky wicket
I found this article at the website of a Jamaican newspaper pretty fascinating. The author, sociologist Peter Espeut, argues that the Caribbean nations made the decision to spend billions of dollars they couldn’t really afford to host this year’s Cricket...RIP David Halberstam
I heard on the radio that David Halberstam died in a car crash yesterday. I’m not usually bothered by the deaths of people I don’t know (the Virginia Tech killings, for instance, mostly left me unaffected), but Halberstam’s death upsets me. His book...E-Edition
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