I love literature; I’ve pretty much devoted my life to its creation and study; I’ve no regrets. And yet. Sometimes, when perusing the pages of the New York Times, it’s not the stories about writers and their cock-eyed theories that make my heart well with amazement and joy. (Take a look at this utterly homophobic [...]

This is going to be a short post that perhaps, as I tease out the idea, will become a longer post — or heck, maybe an academic article, eventually. Over at Offworld, that spin-off of Boing Boing that concentrats on happenings in the game and video game world, Jim Rossignol has posted about the evolution [...]

Today, Liz and I took advantage of Open House New York to inveigle our way into the Grand Hall of the Freemasons in the heart of Chelsea. It took all of our diplomacy, stealth, kung-fu skillz, and bribe money for the month, but we made it in. And now we have the pictures to show [...]