How lucky am I, to have seen mixed-media work by Ebony G. Patterson on two coasts now. Had a couple of friends in town this month, so we took a hot drive down to San Jose – ’cause we know the way. It beckoned, don’t you know, don’t you know, to the Institute of Contemporary […]
It is staying warmer longer at night these dog days, and that is not a good thing. Not fun at all. No. Mmm…slower coolingsdown. If only we’d been warned, educated, and/or informed…. I remember in school, when teachers would explain the seasons to us kids, and describe how during summer, the days feel longer, the […]
As someone who’s been keenly aware of my fallibility and mortality for quite some time now, and who’s long been interested in the study and nurture of my own spirit, I will say there was a clarity to the passing of Anthony Bourdain three summers ago. Not only an untimely and unkind finality, but an […]
If you are a global-warming denier or know someone who hasn’t been believin’ in climate change (and somehow getting in the way of any sort of sensical large-scale worldwide preparation), please, fuck off and remember and/or know that last year, in 2020, Death Valley National Park didn’t register a 130-degree temperature until the middle of […]
This isn’t a Chris Pratt hit piece, but how can I put this so you pick up what I am putting down: The Tomorrow War should’ve stayed yesterday’s pitch meeting. Helmed by seasoned animation director Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie), this ambitious Amazon Studios pandemic-era direct-to-streaming acquisition features Pratt, who also executive produced, as […]
And don’t you forget it: Pride was a riot. Last year, COVID-19 could not cancel Pride, and the celebration went virtual, was illuminated – it carried on. Closer to the streets, the people got back to basics. Some of us called upon the spirit of Pride and the result, at least here in San Francisco, […]
Udo Kier is coming. And he means to leave a mark. Indeed, the iconoclastic German actor – who has appeared in everything from Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein to Suspiria to Madonna’s SEX book to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Armageddon – is set to take a moment in the spotlight this summer, when he stars in […]
It is so pretty out here in Walnut Creek. The Diablo Hills live up to it, alright, but so far, so pleasant. So many trees, such a variety keeping it nice and fresh. No one mentioned there would be deer and wild turkey roaming the streets. I love it. Friendly peeps out there, too, who […]
There we were summer of 2018, roaming the cloisters of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, when news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died. I found solace, reading word of his suicide on my phone, in that we were doing exactly what he had spent the latter part of his life advocating we all do, […]
So tomorrow’s Juneteenth. Ish. Corporate America is giving millions of American workers Friday off, in observance of June 19 on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when Texan slaves learned they had been freed, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. I expect that […]
