by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 3, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
There is one constituency that I don’t know how to reach: people like my old, dear friend Brooklyn Mike, who’s been posting here lately, who would never vote for McCain but just can’t support a bankrupt system by voting for a Democrat either. Without...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 17, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Mom and grand-dog Bo in summer, circa 2002, on the front stoop of our house, 471 State Street, Albany, NY. One brief note, strictly as a bereaved son. Sheila Berger understood me, my aesthetic, my hopes as a writer, an artist, a person -what I could be and make and do...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 15, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This photo just makes my day. If I believed in God I’d say she blessed America. As Anja put it, "And she came in the front door." Amen to that.*** The other day an older man from our neighborhood (a new neighborhood, kind of – we moved just...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 30, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In the past week I've received several variations on this email, below, from "Kathlneen Galloway," "Ernest Graham," "Manuel Tipton," "Kermit Veles," and "Perry Sandoval." Above and below the text you are about to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 7, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
What’s interesting/invigorating to me about this clip is differences in what I expected to be radical differences in perception of it. I (and a vast majority of others I’ve found when googling) see Barney Frank more than holding his own, taking Bill O to...