Fables of the Deconstruction
Nude as the news
Legend has it my great aunt Martha used to believe Mike Douglas could see into her living room when she watched his show, and that he was talking to her and could hear her when she talked bac
Raised Relief
The elusive bird of paradise
Topping my list of reasons to be thankful that we don’t live in the Middle Age are:
Keeping Up with the Jones
U of L and the fight for justice
I made one of the most important professional decisions of my life in graduate school, when I decided to commit “discipline suicide.”
Summary of My Discontent
Is that a gun in your pocket?
When the Memphis Commercial Appeal recently added a searchable database of Tennessee gun owners to its website, I was crazy-jealous that we didn’t have that service available here.
Yep, I’m Gay
A life more ordinary
The unfortunate has finally happened: “The L Word,” the lesbian soap opera of Showtime, is no longer with us. Let’s all take a moment.
Francene
Richy Rich?
In Maryland, fishermen must adhere to a size and number limit for Rockfish. Watermen there are trying to assure the survival of the species.
Raised Relief
Art’s not dead, it’s just asleep
I’m hard pressed to say anything terribly insightful or helpful about: the economy, the state of the record industry, the ever shifting but hopefully not evaporating options for the creative




