Breaking Good: On ‘The Good Wife’ And ‘Breaking Bad’
What seems conspicuous is that both explore, to a greater or lesser degree, the conditions of becoming within the confines of culturally defined gender roles.
Seeing With Soft Eyes
I see her decision to go out with friends, to lunch with a male work acquaintance, to knit, to sleep with her back to me as meaningful, as a statement about me.
On Irony, Humor, Seinfeld, Socrates, Scandal, Kierkegaard, Carrey, Deleuze, Nietzsche… And Letterman
Irony posits two realms: the eternal, or divine, and the temporal, mortal, physical. We live in this world with its laws and constraints, its culture and bodies.
Between Thought And Action
Isn’t thinking an action?
Travel, Schmavel
Me, I will admit without hesitation: I don’t like to travel.
You Are Pi (More Or Less)
Since I was a little boy — like most kids, I think — I’d been interested in infinity.
Whatever Works For You
How, alas, does one excavate oneself from such careening thoughts in which truth is temporary, suspect, and often useless?
The Madness Of Thought
It all begins with a number.
Describing ‘Passionate Indifference’
My sister died about 14 months ago.
To See And Love In Cities: Fear, Power, Infinity
I’m sitting this morning in a café in San Francisco. I look around and I’m struck that almost everything I see…