Archive for July, 2009
An Officer and a Gentleman
Remember this movie, from 1982? As happens with many movies, I caught twenty minutes of it recently while on the stationary bike at the Y. I saw it when it was released, and it must have made quite an impression on me, because I remembered every one of the scenes I saw this time — [...]
A Little Hopper, a Little Lawrence
As an amateur painter I often see mundane sights and think about painting them — rows of windows in adjacent brownstones, a slanted shadow on the side of a building; then I check myself, figuring that my obsession with color and form is making me think about painting things no one else would care about. [...]
Point Counter Point
The cool thing about having a Web site like this one, with no advertising — and not exactly a Stephen King-level readership, for that matter — is that you can write about whatever strikes your fancy, timeliness be damned. Which is why I can now write about a novel I recently read that strikes me as [...]
