1. Every day of a school week, a yellow girl ran up the street toward the Chalfonts. She ran with…
CANNIBALIZED NOTEBOOKS (2015-2018)
A) Putney Swope vs Tropic Thunder …has anyone made the connection? B) Writing exercises: Describe the difference between the…
COMPARATIVE STUDIES in FILM-MAKING
Quite a while back I made this short film about relationships. I filmed two friends, who acted as my actors,…
morning news: a pome
sipping i read Jerhonda Pace was just 15 when she met her musical idol, R. Kelly, outside…
HOMO ZERO
for Comrade EC, who’s happy in Heaven with Francoise Sagan now PROLOGUE: I am Born, Elvis Reports to Nixon, Primates…
At Least 23 Cases of Mistaken Identity in the Golden Age of the Genome
1. Berlin, 2003. It is winter and very cold. Friday night. I’m walking from cafe to cafe with a…
THE SECOND GUEST: A FREUDIAN GHOST STORY (unfinished shooting script)
In 2002 I sold an option on a screenplay, to a Berlin film production company, for a record amount…
VERA, NORA, ZELDA, CAITLIN, VIV or HUGO or TESS? (a pome)
1. Vera, Nora, Zelda, Caitlin, Viv or Hugo or Tess? which of the famous Lit Wife Archetypes was…
DEATH ET AL
One of the many things that the Internet has changed is what we do with that stretch of time, between…
LO the MIGHTY BULWARK of EPHEMERA vs the GRAFFITI of the COMMENTARY DESPOILING ITS PRISTINE SURFACES
Around the World in 35 Minutes with my Occasional (and occasionally well-argued) commentary on YouTube threads (edited for length)… 1.…
APP-ALLING: OVER THE COUNTER COUNTERCULTURE (A COMMERCIAL)
Young Indie Alt Media Star FKA Twigs appears in a Spike Jonze video, with the lacerating title “Welcome Home,” about…
SNAILS in the COFFIN: SUNDRY ICKY, DISTURBING and/or BLASPHEMOUS THINGS
Take the case of the cultural jingoist and editor of The New Yorker David Remnick, who noted in his letter nominating TV…
THE INHERITANCE (a short story from the novel GERMANTOWN)
A cloud of noise from the far corner of Golders Park, a jangle of plaint and controversy. The vivid disturbance…
A POX OF BOURGEOIS CULTURAL REFUGEES on ALL OUR HOUSES
Forty years of sinisterly-manipulated recessions have thrown wave upon wave of not-very-talented “singers”, “poets”, “novelists”, “filmmakers”, Marxist academics and…
INCREDIBLY CAPABLE CRONE: a book review
Lizibeta Snitt’s surprisingly popular Incredibly Capable Crone series is a trilogy of graphic novels in free verse. The title character is…
incredibly capable crone (a super hero pome)
“Give them time, Bella told herself, they’re only young”. – Jenny Diski, The Dream Mistress “Over wine at dinner…
30 under 30 (a pome)
There are two kinds of neat endings: the satisfying circle that ends where it began, and the straight line that…
ouroboros borborygmus: a short story
1. Stock was just beginning to dwell on the fact that he’d been sitting alone in the waiting room for…
CONVERSATIONS with a REMARKABLE MAN: a Short Story
I remember the day of the morning I found out that my father had died. His partner in my creation,…
Hats off to Denis Rancourt: They’ve Ground him into the Gravel for Years but He is STILL. AT. IT.
MACROAGGRESSION needs to be a thing. #macroaggression #obama #BlackLivesMatter #racism pic.twitter.com/KLN3UmwOAn — Denis Rancourt (@denisrancourt) January 5, 2018 Is…
DON DELILLO v CHICKEN NUGGETS w/r/t PYNCHONIAN ERRATA & SYNCHRONICITY
Early today I had to pre-heat the oven for the frozen chicken nuggets that Daughter has favored for the past…
THE AWFUL GULF between public BLACK MUSICAL GENIUS and public BLACK LITERARY MEDIOCRITY
As ever: Black Musicians are at the intellectual forefront while prominent Black Writers remain pathetic Third-Stringers, reliant on the…
ATTACK of the PHALLIC FOREHEADS (in HD, 1955)
At seven or eight years old I’d run home from grammar school (the front of which, with its flagpole, a…
THE BEST OBIT REGARDING THE UNEXPECTED DEATH THAT HIT ME THE HARDEST in 2017
The Writers Joseph Ramsey and Boyd Nielson have done a salute-worthy job of honoring the lost presence and important work…
BUT THE DOUGHNUTS ARE CHEAP and the PORN IS FREE, SO…. (a quick aggregation of Horrors)
Think of the worst, most violently selfish and dangerous people you’ve ever known or heard about and realize that those…
WHERE IS YOUR AWARD-WINNING SOB-STORY, POET? (a pome)
WHERE IS YOUR AWARD-WINNING SOB-STORY, POET? where is your award-winning sob story, poet? your artless re-collection of shit-luck’s local…
The Novel Excerpt: a few more chapters from THE BROTHERLAND MIRACLES
[O’Sirus is in town with her lover Katryn, invited to the wedding of the two heads (SETH and SHEM) of…
ANOTHER PICTURE FORMS in the CRACKLING FLAMES of these LITERARY ENDTIMES
Every Age has its signature follies: from 15th century Europe’s infatuation with the codpiece to the early-20th century radium craze…
THE PATRIARCH: a short story
One of those little pleasures your subconscious gifts you with, from time to time: the rolled-up bills in an overlooked…
STILL ABSOLUTELY GERMAINE
The problem with the Nanny Fascist bludgeon of choice (Twitter) is that it privileges dumb jokes and inarticulate rage (Hitler’s…
KUBRICK, THE FUTURE and HIS BLACKEST COMEDY
In the late spring or early summer of 1980, like quite a few people, I saw Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining…
WHAT IS LEFT
I’ve never been a swooning fan of Cornel West’s presentation (like those other On-Camera Academics, Slavoj Zizek and Camille Paglia,…
THREE MINI-ESSAYS on GOURMET VARIETIES of ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS BULLSHIT
1. GENDER BULLSHIT Solidly-mediocre purveyor of Normative Pap, Hollywood asset Matt Damon, recently took the risky step of addressing…
A.I. , SKY NET and KNOWING KUNG FU
We live in a bizarrely lopsided Technocracy in which communications (and data-gathering) tech was seen to quite suddenly jump ahead,…
HEAVEN vs UTOPIA: a parapolitical investigation
Utopia is a Left-Leaning young man’s dream and it is the Earthly analogue for Heaven. No one older than a…
THE NOVEL EXCERPT: from THE BOMB COLLECTOR
[The Bomb Collector is a Novella featured in THREE POSTMODERN MURDER MYSTERY NOVELLAS] The only thing I like more than…
HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I’M A POST-BLACK RADICAL INTELLECTUAL EXPAT MOD WHO DIGS early-mid-period KATE BUSH… ?
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THE ELEPHANT EYE MYSTERIES (a short story)
Wednesday night they went and saw an arty Italian horror movie at the TLA and after the lights went…
THE CONDITIONS WERE RIGHT
generation i: programmed for trivial narcisso-militancy
Edgy. Righteous. Game-changing. Silly. Let’s see if they get this one to go viral; I like the uncompromising urgency…
RAISED in a REVOLUTION
Unlike many reading this, I was raised in an actual Revolutionary Movement. My father and his comrades were Black…
THE WRITER, HIS KILLING and HIS FRIENDS: a brief review of a book and a video
In order to understand DFW’s writer’s block, you have to understand his relationship with Jonathan Franzen; in order to contextualize…
UNMANNING THE BARRICADES
Increasingly, the Serfs bifurcate as though along the tracks of a ten-thousand-mile zipper: Pre-Literate Masses to the Right… vs… (on…
ME TOO, TOO
It’s good to see power-drunk psychopaths like Harvey Weinstein fall before they’re too old for the comeuppance to mean anything…
FAILURE IS WHERE ALL OUR BEST POETRY COMES FROM (and this source will never dry up)
In the following video (linked below), Yanis Varoufakis does a good job of displaying an ornate intelligence that might…
DON’T TELL CHLOE: a short story
Henry was already famous for having used a logical argument to get out of church every Sunday and now…
JULES: a short story
The night my uncle Chandler did grievous damage to his Beetle at a bend in the road in North…
LAKE ZURICH: a short story
The last photo in the row of photos in cardboard frames on the windowsill was face-down on the sill…
FEMINISM meet FRENEMISM
I was raised on a weird cusp between a crumbling World Order and several Emergent World Orders. Being born…
THREE MYSTIFYING PUBLISHING PHENOMS EXPLAINED
Karl Ove Knausgaard (code name: KOK) Karl Ove Gump. Or Chauncey Knausgaard? A little of each, cannily packaged as one…
Time: A Mortal Straight Male’s Perspective and Counsel
Any fan of Martin Amis’ “Experience” will remember his father, Kingsley’s, character, in that book, as a craggily-lovable figure of…
COLLECTED APHORISMS and OBSERVATIONS of PASTOR PRIME [continually updated]
1. “Convention is the death of possibility; convenience is the death of passion. Modern life is both.” 2. “A Gifted Child…
Notes from/for/to/as An Existential Critic: on Daydreaming
Like everyone reading this, I’m an Animal. A peculiar kind of Animal who is both natural and capable of imagining…
THE NOVEL IN PROGRESS, part 2: Excerpt from THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY (near completion)
34 [monologue #2, cont’d] We stalked around the museum a bit, taking in German Expressionism, which, as you know, is…
But now a gentleman passing
A few weeks ago, an old friend I’ve known since the 1980s, a musician, a friend from that side…
