I. Of Facts and Truths You are writing what will probably become the de facto story of what happened to Levi, and so every detail you choose to do that with shall become significant, because your account will be the one account anyone is ever likely to read about him. -Jim Fingal …the more important […]
Like its author, How To Be Black is a bit of a scattershot—confessional, political, comedic. But let me explain what the book is not: It is not an instructional how-to in the spirit of …For Dummies. Written more explicitly, “This book is not How to Become a Black Person If You Are Not Already Black.” […]
Drive did not resonate with me as much as I wanted. Not because I thought the trailer looked like The Fast and the Furious and not because the film is poorly made – far from it. I’ve seen it before. It’s a cover.
Listening to Peter Evans Quintet’s “…One to Ninety-Two” (a sprightly reinvention of Mel Tormé’s “Christmas Song“), a suspicion besets the mind that Peter Evans is not exactly the trumpeter he professes to be. From the sound of a few tracks on Ghosts (2011), he could be Richard D. James and/or Tom Jenkinson taking a crack at free jazz. But weeks of intensive exposure […]
Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Metaphysics is that, despite the Universe, it somehow manages to take itself seriously. When I say ‘Metaphysics’ here, I mean two things: 1) the legacy of those Great Bearded Thinkers whose psychic concepts and guttural neologisms have been preserved in the spiritual brine of academic pretense, 2) the white-smock’d tradition of speculation, investigation, and Latin […]
