I'm thinking about that woman who got fired today from her job of being the White House press secretary. She was bad at that job and everyone laughed at her. I'm thinking, too, of my shortest-ever jo...

The exuberant, gruesome poster for the 1981 slasher film, Happy Birthday to Me, depicts a young man about to be impaled in the throat with a shish kebab. Above this image, the words: "John will never ...

I have been to a movie theater just for the AC. I have bounced from cafe to bookstore to a second bookstore just for the AC. I have spent entire afternoons working in our bedroom because it's the one ...

As I write this, there are no reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Rob Tregenza's latest film, Fast. On Metacritic, there are two. I know it screened for several days at MoMA in New York, one night in Los ...

Podcast Episode · Linoleum Knife · September 30 · 55m

There's an October heatwave coming in a couple days and the forecast says it's going last more than a week. These are the meteorological vicissitudes of Los Angeles. I won't be cooking unless it's at ...

I have a 2000s-era iPod, and it contains exactly 29,804 songs that can never be updated because I have no more iTunes. Everything is inside that little flat box forever. None of it is leaving. It live...

There's a line in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Somehow, I've become very c...

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Not long ago, someone posted this video to YouTube from a VHS recording. It’s 61 minutes long, from a Mudhoney show that I attended, May 12, 1989 at the University of London's School of Oriental and A...