After Barack Obama’s election, one of the jokes that I most frequently made was… “After the next 8 years of unqualified success, I will still somehow run for and be elected president to succeed his two already wonderful terms.” This is to make light of the fact that even before the election was final, the […]

In response to the recent panic surrounding the H1N1 virus, as well as for basic hygiene, my workplace recently installed motion activated hand sanitizer dispensers throughout its establishment. I had encountered something similar once before in a public restroom dispenser that squirted soap on your hands when simply placed before its electronic eye. There was […]

I should like to make slow, sober, focused love to all the stronger passions of humanity, tearing through the timid, the tired, the teased and torn, adding sugar to better taste even the bitter bore.

The Swedish disco megaband ABBA – and I don’t use the term megaband lightly – was our future. Do not mistake me. I am not purporting that in the future we will resemble ABBA. No, no. ABBA was our future. It already happened. We missed it. We have no future. Fuck. But wait…do not yet […]