Mitt Romney Is Gay!
Region: New York
The story has just emerged that while at the prestigious Cranbrook School in 1965, Mitt Romney led a vigilante attack on a suspected gay student, holding him down and forcibly cutting his hair. "He can't look like that. Th... more
Views: 401New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Region: New York
New Poems of Emily Dickinson -- a bold title! -- by William H. Shurr, with Anna Dunlap and Emily Grey Shurr, offers hundreds of new poems found within Emily's correspondence. Many of them are "fourteeners": a line of iambi... more
Views: 283Christian Ethics in the Presidential Election
Region: New York
Speaking as a fundamentalist Christian, I must regretfully observe that Mitt Romney is destined for Hell due to the heresy of Mormonism, whereas Obama, who is an actual Christian, will surely enter Paradise. I call on all ... more
Views: 329My Imaginary Debate with Rick Santorum
Region: New York
Santorum: If God had intended us to use contraception, we would have each been born with 1700 condoms. Me: If God had intended us to use contraception, She would have given us the intelligence to devise it. She did. more
Views: 341The Bumper Sticker That May Win the Election
Region: New York
MITT ROMNEY GUESSED MY AGE WRONG [A New York Times article from last December 27 revealed that Mitt travels through the country constantly guessing people's nationalities, ages, and interrelationships -- for examp... more
Views: 384Greg Girard, "Half the Surface of the World," International Center of Photography (until May 6)
Region: New York
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his life in Asia. The ICF is showing his photographs of American military bases in Korea, Japan, Okinawa and other Asian locales. These photos are surprising. Th... more
Views: 768"Whales, Whaling and Whalecraft" by Paul Giambarba
Region: New York
This is a simple book full of illustrations by the author, intended either for children or tourists (or both; there is a genre of "child tourist literature"). Mr. Giambarba published it himself (I suspect), in 1967, under ... more
Views: 563"The Fox" by D. H. Lawrence
Region: New York
Some hustler could make 2 or $3 million transforming this book into a moody English film. But I'm glad he doesn't! I'd much rather read it, slowly, over two weeks -- though it's only 195 pages. The front cover calls The Fo... more
Views: 538Coin Coin Chapter One
Region: New York
At the Museum of Modern Art, I had the intuition: "Go to Le Poisson Rouge!" (That's a sophisticated art-nightclub on Bleecker Street.) First I attended the Healing Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, then hopped the E train d... more
Views: 671On Kawara
Region: New York
Like many New Yorkers, I went to this show because the Doug Wheeler exhibit next door was full. On my way into the David Zwirner Gallery, I ran into Emma Harden, who introduced me to Raluca Ancuta. We were talking about Be... more
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