That’s Why They Call It Dope
February 27, 2014
Worst thing about recreational drugs is not that they make you stupid but that they make you feel good about feeling stupid.
It is a vanity project and a writing closet, a treasure chest for news, views and reviews.
More prosaically, it provides a store house for my writing. Some of it is quirky – poems, sayings and asides. There are movie and book reviews, profiles and other articles from my past and present sojourn as a journalist. Plus my new book — The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past!
Novel
The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past
A thrilling, highly imaginative and tautly written journey back in time to find “the tool to unrule” a post-American fascism.
“Brilliant,” says National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson of “The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past.”
“A great tale, brilliantly told,” says violist and international recording artist Roger Chase. “There are surprises on every page, and the end, which comes only too soon, is a coda of marvelous drama, invention and imagination.”
Second Person
February 25, 2014
Listen to your heart, it beats in threes.
Fast bifurcated threes with the third beat silent.
Thump, thump, _________.
Thump, thump, _________.
Thump, thump, _________.
The missing beat: what goes there?
Is it the heart poised, in recovery,
collecting itself
for another surge,
a tidal bath of blood?
But that’s too mechanical, too metronomical.
Critiquing Ibsen
February 25, 2014
On seeing Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”: What I enjoyed most about it was trying to figure out why I disliked it so much.
High Stepping
February 25, 2014
Kick your feet up while you can, because before long you won’t be able to lift them off the floor.
Dawn to Dust
February 25, 2014
T.S. Eliot: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” Nah, disorder and disintegration, maybe. Messiness, sure, just like real life, like us:
Heavyweights’ Lament
February 25, 2014
Prejudice is irrational, reflecting confusion and pathology in the hater rather than any quality in the hatee. Same with the phobia against obesity, of course,
With CIF’s help, Pair’s Job Prospects Brighten
January 17, 2014
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 16, 2014 Kevin Schneider worked 18 years as a bagger at Dominick’s on Green Bay Road; Kyle Bean worked as a bagger
But Seriously…Posen Knows the Art of Comedy
January 4, 2014
The North Shore Weekend, Jan. 3, 2014 Brian Posen is serious about being funny. The 49-year-old Glencoe native runs the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, which