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Elegy
A few weeks ago, Leslie’s grandmother died and I went to my first funeral. Awkward as it is to confess, I was a little bit excited to go. I hadn’t been to any of my own grandparents’ funerals. Three of...
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A Letter to a City I Thought I’d Never Learn to Love
London, I love you in all your madness and loudness and wetness and wonder. I love your mad hatter streets, which refuse to run parallel and let their names slip away through misty fog fingers. I love...
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The Happy Atheist
Recently a young man from Sacramento asked on Craigslist for people to respond to the question: “What is the meaning of life?” He was compiling an anthology of differing answers to the question. I...
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The Wrong Way to Protest
The following is the result of perfect serendipity. I was walking around central London when I happened upon what I’ll call a ‘meat is murder protest’. An initial caveat: I am not against...
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Voluntary Mandatory Office Parties
I wish they would just add it to the list of mandatory withdrawals: federal tax, state tax, social security tax, Medicare tax and the office party tax. It would be easier that way. They should just do...
View ArticlePavilion: An Excerpt
The Rat Hole lay behind the old Physics block between the disused boys and girls changing rooms next to the hockey and football pitches. It had accommodated smokers for seven years and it smelt of...
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On some selected works of James McNeill Whistler
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to...
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Landscape Art and Frederic Edwin Church
“One generation abandons the enterprise of another like stranded vessels.”- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Landscape art can be elusive. Within the sort of art exhibition that aggregates paintings from a...
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Remembering Leo Vroman 1915-2014
Today, 10th April 2015, in the Dutch city of Gouda, the life and achievements of poet Leo Vroman are being celebrated. The 10th of April would have been Leo’s 100th birthday. For those that do not...
View ArticleLong and winding road to “Understanding (of language) are not enough”
“Understanding (of language) are not enough – is a 2016 e-book written by yours truly, translated by Ermanno Moretti and published by Diaforia. First of all, let’s get out of the way the “are” thing....
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