In high school, I was part of a claustral group of serious, intense people who made each other laugh with complicated in-jokes and autobiographical comic strips, who researched and amassed thick spiral-bound notebooks full of pictures of musicians we intended to have sex with, and we all hung out at an off-off-brand dollar store (Dollar […]
MARGAUX (sighs) All right. You know I have more respect for your art than I do for my own fears. SHEILA Thank you! Thank you! MARGAUX Just promise you won’t betray me. A lot of people I know are trying to get their first jobs out of college. Many of them are bitter that they […]
When I was just out of school and working in food service I hoped there would never be a time when the wish of Robert Crumb – as related to the audience by his wife and fellow artist, Aline, in Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb – to just be a head in a jar would resound so […]
I fall in love with a cowboy in the middle of a great tragedy. the great tragedy is my life. I love a title that I can’t say without bringing the back of my hand to my forehead and affecting a Katherine Hepburn voice. Anthony Hopkins affected a Katherine Hepburn voice for the role of […]
Meet my internet crush. He is a stack of books. Unless my childhood diary lies I definitely knew about his work by 2002, a year after Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish came out. My notebooks from this year and throughout high school are a swirl of hearts and his words. Sadism was named after the Marquis de […]
