I dreamed I was talking to David Bowie through a doorway in an upstate house. We both sat on the floor. He had a Tilda Swinton mask that was only half the face and a young David Bowie mask and he wore one over the other. I told him to please stop the instant he […]
Writing
Jennifer Senior’s New York Magazine interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, wherein Scalia talks candidly about the Devil (whom he views from a strict, literal standpoint—“Jesus Christ believed in the Devil,” he points out) is drawing keen interest even when compared to the many other incendiary exchanges with the controversial jurist (both recent and […]
I dislike the “Mystery” genre (although I love “Crime” fiction) because I don’t like the implicit double-blind game with the author: of course it’s not the butler, not because the clues don’t point that direction but because that’s too obvious; the killer has to be the character whom even the seasoned mystery aficionado would never […]