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no enemies to your left
As long as a fascist is President, I will stop pretending that the important conversation is how to help the middle class
I was born and raised poor. The kind of poor that skips doctor visits, dental check-ups, school supplies, clothes, groceries, basic meals, safe spaces sans drug and alcohol abuse. I was regularly without child care as young as ( Read more... ) -
editor's note: disturbing
A few months ago I entered my first piece of flash fiction (it’s hard, you guys) into a contest from Public Radio International. It didn’t place, but it was a top finalist, which got it onto the desk of Gates McFadden at her L.A. theater company for a possible adaptation.
That never turned into anything, sadly (I say this knowing it’s a poor ( Read more... ) -
my goodness.
It seems I have been hired by the Institute of Contemporary Art as a visiting artist to give talks (for lack of a better word) in the galleries on the monthly no-admission days, to get people to stay for more than a fifteen minute run-through-
(You see I know you were thinking it. Except you, Joss Whedon.)
It will also have a minor curatorial ( Read more... ) -
space
A bathroom designed by Henri Lefebvre.
A bathroom experienced by Henri Lefebvre.
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i took myself on a date
So everyone knows about Danny Boyle's third-act problems, but did you know that even before the 3rd act in Trance he steps off into the deep end with a major heisty plot point that hinges on Rosario Dawson's freshly shaved vagina? He shows it to us twice just so we're clear. James McAvoy reaches out to it, cartoonishly astounded, and whispers How ( Read more... ) -
...can you hook me up for the night?
Arc Magazine pulls no punches at battering my heart. Gorgeous. Ambitious. Principled. And it's the fiction arm of New Scientist, which basically makes it the new Omni. And look at the slate of contributors-Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, China Miéville, Frederick Pohl, etc, etc.
(Needs more women, but we can work on that.)
I was lucky ( Read more... ) -
when festivals don’t want you
A friend of mine recently did a lot of work on a very beautiful short film that has had zero interest at festivals, which has convinced him that he simply doesn’t know what they want anymore. I wrote him this e-mail to correct this idea, and it occurred to me that many independent filmmakers have had this same problem and should know this stuff if ( Read more... )
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