Archive for May 2010
The truth
This brief screed about “overwriting” was posted by Michael Brick near the end of a very long comments thread over on Gangrey that discusses writing, outlining, frustrations, listening to music while you write (do you or don’t you?) and so much else. I’m reposting it here because it’s just so damn true. “That word though,…
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“Resentment is like drinking poison, and then waiting for the other person to die.” — Carrie Fisher Since I clipped it out years ago (I think from the New York Times Magazine sometime in the late ’90s), I’ve had this picture either on a refrigerator or a bulletin board or somewhere at the ready. As…
Read MoreSNL Homowatch: 5/8 (Betty White!)
[Author’s Note: This is my “SNL Homowatch,” where I count and try to make sense of Saturday Night Live‘s endless obsession with making jokes about gay people and gay sex, without letting gay writers or gay performers have a go at the joke themselves. It’s a cycle I call enlightened homophobia — jokes about gays,…
Read More“It isn’t fashion until somebody wears it…”
When casting about helplessly on my own articles (or just putting off the inevitable), I like to randomly, briefly cruise through The Post archives and see what was up 10, 20, 45 years ago in the paper. Just now I came across this appreciation that Jura Koncius and Martha Sherrill wrote when Nina Hyde, the…
Read MoreQuirky is not what you think it is
People who know me best know about my New Mexico thing, which, unlike those people who occasionally go woo-woo and come back from vacation with a newfound Santa Fe jones, is legit and deep. My parents moved to New Mexico in the 1950s (Cold War, dad was an engineer) and stayed for a decade before…
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