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Charles Barkley on the Royal Wedding

Charles Barkley with some choice words for those obsessed with the royal wedding. For those who don't watch, Chuck makes the two-month haul of NBA playoffs enjoyable....

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File Under: Pretentious

Note: I wrote this about four years ago and I found it tonight when I was digging through some old folders. If I'm to fit this into a journalism peg (or a trust fund reporting peg), it would be the...

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On Being Arrested in Rockdale, Texas

Author's Note #1: There are many different ways to tell an exciting story. Author's Note #2: This is not an exciting story. Part One The bachelor and I had left Brenham after stopping in a gas station/bbq stand for some...

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National Poetry Month

Check out this vintage (can I say 'vintage' without smacking of a be-turtlenecked West Village furniture designer?) footage of Leonard Cohen reading some of his work from 19-freakin'-66 at the 92nd Street Y. And read more poems you slacker....

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Rockdale, Texas

Like all good stories, they require waiting. Be on the lookout for a dispatch about my time in custody at the Rockdale jail. It's the most boring arrest story ever....

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Gilded Soapbox

I'm off to Austin this weekend but before I left, I thought I'd share my latest blatherings on the Huffington Post. This week it's about Richard Goldstone: I know Israel acts very improperly sometimes, their extending presence in the West...

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DFW

Since much hay is being made about the release of David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, I thought I might share with you a leetle piece of his work from a few years back. Fair warning: It's about tennis. And the...

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If I May Unwarrantedly Impose

myself (again) on a political situation about which I am probably still unqualified to make serious commentary...some bad news out of Jenin this week featured the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian actor and activist, who was one of the...

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LCD Finale

Had the privilege of catching the LAST EVER concert by LCD Soundsystem before they dissipated into the musical ether. Here's a highlight, the opener, which melted our collective faces off. If you're impatient, scroll to about 4:00 and move any...

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