In Super Bowl XLIV, it was the first time the winning team had lost their last three regular season games. It was the first time a team kicked an onside kick prior to the 4th quarter. It was the first time a kicker made three field goals longer than 40 yards. It was only the [...]
In honor of this holiday, I am presenting some of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words. He was a truth teller and an activist in the best sense possible, not just on behalf of civil rights but for race relations, peace, and economic justice. I ♥ him. Here he speaks for himself:
“As I have [...]
Killing was an act of contact. It was messy and spawned existential questions along with real, visible, grotesque pain and suffering. People started thinking of ways to keep the blood off their hands while still being winning participants in power plays of exhilarating life and horrifying death. People started using stones in mobs of collective, [...]
I was a super hero
In a comic book city
Donned a costume of glasses and bright blazers
And fought with human strength
Supplied by a supply of drugs
And pride
I wore a crown of defeat every night
Driving toward comic book towers
Brightly lit, banked against an ominously colored sky
At home,
I curled up in the curved dome of my head
Suckered to [...]
My letter to the editor was published in BR’s Advocate on Friday, Nov. 20, and was the latest in a chain of letters discussing gay rights and discrimination. Here are the links below to the first few letters, and the link & text of my response. Thanks to everyone for the positive response!
Letter: Reader sees [...]
I was an adult before I ever saw a shooting star that I can remember. Incidental, walking back to my dorm at the end of a Saturday night. Winter. In a group, who knows what was being said or what language was being spoken and with what other accent. Missing a boyfriend, a love, hands [...]
Sometimes it’s good to get outta BR, paddle in the swamp at night, go to the city and…put on a costume, give candy to strangers, fake-film people with painted cardboard and dance to techno while two male witches have words. Word of advice: if you can’t get a cab, best to just walk. If you [...]
Here’s the link to a recent story on NPR about a recently opened charter school in New York City called The Equity Project (TEP). They’re allocating their public funding to pay their teachers $125,000/yr while the principal earns $90,000. People may not get into teaching for the money, but that’s exactly the problem, so let’s [...]
*this post is inspired by the recent announcement that the balloon boy saga was a hoax. his parents met in acting school. enjoy.*
(a monologue)
I used to always say that I hated actors. This meant I hated artifice, pretense, and facades. I hated attention-getting melodrama. I hated the praise lauded on acting as talent, hated the [...]
She has an ant bite on her ankle that hasn’t yet healed.
She stood at the edge of her driveway, arms crossed very tightly. The blue and red plaid of her shirt twisted around her torso like her body might torque into a tornado at any minute. Her limbs and shoulders contorted into a posture of [...]