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 [ … ]
Death of a Neighborhood
In 1985, I saw the movie “Beat Street” that’s about break dancing and grafitti artists living in the South Bronx and I thought “Wow!” I wanna be like them. So [ … ]
Bud Selig is a Bum
The Beginning of the End of Major League Baseball Major League Baseball will collapse as it chokes on its own greed; is victimized by declining morality and corrupt leadership and [ … ]
Humming Along
Every so often, I feel the world is coming to an end. It can be because of straightforward news, like that they’ve just upgraded the terror alert. Or, it can [ … ]
The Loss of Dr. Thompson and Our American Dream
After several days underground, I have at last emerged, ready to reflect on the recent and tragic loss of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. For a twenty-three year old writer struggling [ … ]
The Great Social Security Scare
President Bush has wasted little time cashing in what little political capital he has gained with his majority election this past November. Just weeks into his second term, Mr. Bush [ … ]