The NY State of Mind Does Not Brake For Enlightenment
George Carlin had this joke. Take a pad and paper with you every day. Count up to ten. That would…
Category: Non-Fiction
Education in America – The O’Reilly Factor
Bill O'Reilly has discovered that Americans are ignorant "about their own country." He told us so not too long ago,…
Film and Ownership
How long does an art experience or observation last? One painting, maybe can last a few minutes as you stand…
The Trouble With Past Lives
When I was a child, I was afraid of the closet. It didn’t help watching movies like the first Poltergeist…
Zero Opportunity
In June 2013, I received the news that Zero Books would publish a collection of my film theory essays. The…
(TH)EverYing is a LI(V)E
When one peels away the onion layers of “the conspiracy” one does end up back in the Garden of Eden…
Changing Anthems
I was trying not to panic. That is, I had no reason to panic. I had prepped days in advance.…
The Old Road is Rapidly Ageing
Fifty years ago a young man by the name of Robert Zimmerman took a song to Studio A in New…
Feeling Yourself Explode – My Take on Being “Mad as Hell”
These days, we’re all mad as hell at the world. There is too much going on, and we just can’t…
Walking the Partisan Plank
The recent government shutdown has brought to surface the fact that acidic internal divisions are rife in American politics. In…