On my last day in Austin, Hilmar took me to Olivia’s for brunch. There I had the dish above — Oysters Benedict, Eggs Benedict on homemade bread with fried oysters. Why have I never seen this dish on any other … Continue reading
It may just be the presumption of a fiction writer, but I feel I have a pretty good idea of how and why Jodi Arias happened to kill her sometime lover Travis Alexander on 4 June 2008, for which killing … Continue reading
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You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the god-damn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is … Continue reading
Forty years (!) after its release, after a deluge of explicit pornography has washed across and nearly drowned our culture, this film has lost its capacity to shock as it once shocked, with its sexual frankness embedded a well-made film … Continue reading
We ask, “Why would a young man from a materially comfortable home walk into a school and murder 20 children?” The better question might be, “Why don’t more young men do it?” More young men who don’t know what it … Continue reading
You could, with some justice, dismiss this latest of Peter Jackson’s Tolkien movies as self-indulgent, guilty of inflating modest story content to immodest lengths — or you could just adjust your sensibility to Jackson’s leisurely narrative pace, go with it … Continue reading
Dickwad and prominent Christian spokesperson Mike Huckabee has weighed in on the Sandy Hook murders. He said, “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised … Continue reading
The collapse of manhood, the absence of viable male role models in a culture, creates monsters — existential nullities, terrified of women, who will do anything to feel “real” again, if only for a few minutes. As a culture, we’re … Continue reading
. . . from The New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. The tree emerges from a long narrow trap in the stage floor and expands to gigantic proportions. When Balanchine was asked why there wasn’t a … Continue reading
Today a fresh-faced young kid showed up at my door canvassing for Obama. I told him I would be voting, had already made up my mind about how I’d be voting and urged him to go spend time with someone … Continue reading
. . . in Las Vegas unless it is photographed. Dr. Paul stood before a great neon guitar — because I photographed it. I photographed it because my sister Lee photographed me photographing it. My sister Lee did not photograph … Continue reading
People think Obama is going to come out swinging in the next debate with Romney and make a bid to turn things around. Don’t count on it. Obama doesn’t care about this country. He doesn’t care about The Constitution. He … Continue reading
Paul Zahl reflects on what’s not being talked about in this year’s campaign for President — basically, everything that’s really important: In the 1982 movie entitled Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, the “Ed Horman” character, played by Jack Lemmon, says … Continue reading