To Gillian on Her Fortieth Birthday
The day before this article goes up? My fortieth birthday. Which means I have reached…
Taco Break: I Can’t Quit You
The first show I watched in its entirety was Six Feet Under. I watched it on…
Laughing Into the Shadows
So this has been some year, huh? Whew. There’s been some good news, but by…
Choices
I’ll admit I haven’t really sought out the details on this, because it seems difficult…
Comic Sublime
The problem is that jokes deal so efficiently with ideas that there is little more…
Taco Break: Group Tastes
Can you believe it’s Thanksgiving already? I mean, holy crap. This month has flown by.…
Taco Break: The Unfinished Twist
Last year’s season of South Park was a molotov cocktail thrown into the modern culture. The first…
Adaptation Games
I have a greater fondness for certain adaptations of Shakespeare than I do for the…
Taco Break: The BIG Screen
Back in the days of VHS, movies were cropped to fit the 4:3 television screen.…
Solace in the Dark
I have, as you know, long fought to keep my posts relatively apolitical. I wasn’t…