Jes Alexander, Special to The Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2005 My friend Alison e-mailed me a few weeks before Martha Stewart left prison and forwarded me an application to be [ … ]
Sorry, Martha. Housekeeping's not my idea of 'reality'
Jes Alexander, Special to The Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2005 My friend Alison e-mailed me a few weeks before Martha Stewart left prison and forwarded me an application to be [ … ]
Do I look thinner?
It has been a while, since health organizations and the government have been trying to implement measures to drop considerably the number of obese people in the UK. A survey [ … ]
Monkeyman
Whatever happened to the monkey man? I remember the short-lived hysteria he plagued upon the people of India, bounding from rooftop to rooftop terrorizing the threadbare villages, resulting in the [ … ]
Turn and Cough It Up
The Dismembered Black Knight’s immortal punchline, “’Tis but a flesh wound,” really rounds into form when you’re living without health insurance. Since I can’t even afford antibiotics to battle the [ … ]
It’s All in a Name
Men are taught very young that what women really want is tall, dark and handsome. Well, as a 5-foot 6-inch redhead shaped like a bowling pin, I find those qualifications [ … ]
Ice-Fishing: One Man’s Pursuit of Manliness
There are two groups of people in Northern Minnesota – those that hunt, fish, and own snow-mobiles, and those that do not. The ones that belong to the first camp [ … ]
Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: The Revolutionary Potential of Art
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” -William S. Burroughs In a recent article, Serbian filmmaker [ … ]
URBAN WARFARE
I received this invitation to attend the Congress For The New Urbanism (CNU) Press Luncheon with my friend held at the Metropolitan Pavilion here in New York City. It was [ … ]
The Lower East Side
Long Live the Revolution Long Live the Revolution of the Pseudo Anarchist Hippy Bohemian Squatter Revolutionary Lower East Side In Alphabet City where God Bless America becomes God Fuck America [ … ]