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!
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.”
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.
On seeing Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”: What I enjoyed most about it was trying to figure out why I disliked it so much.
Kick your feet up while you can, because before long you won’t be able to lift them off the floor.
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:
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,
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
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
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 19, 2013 Judi Dench’s face is a global treasure, and should be carved Rushmore-like on the Hollywood Hills. The wrinkles, furrows and