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What is real?
What is imagined?
Who lies?
Who doesn’t?

Arthouse.

Pretentious.

Amazing.

Do yourself a favor.

See it… Twice. Trust me on this one.

Just finished Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Subtle, but not. A different kind of day in the life. "Oh boy" is right. It isn’t Atonement. Then again, it doesn’t need to be. Quite stunning. Well worth your time.

An update:

Since the last blog, Iwas interviewed by public radio’s Weekend Americaon the best (and worst) depictions of disability in popular culture. My take on disablity and humorwas not quite what the producers expected. Bwah ha! What fun.

I’ve been hard at work posting content over at the excellent Ragged Edgewebsite on a variety of hot button topics including the Politics of Popcorn, the bigotry exposed by Dick Clark’s return to TV, and one Dane’s brave fight for your right to screw. Check ‘em out.

Also just published a new piece in the always stellar Satya Magazine:

Warning: This one is not for laughs, kids.It was a tough one to write — and to experience. Hope you like it anyway.

I Held Them While They Died
February 2006, Satya Magazine

"There they were," the newspaper story began, "3,500 chickens scattered all over the highway. And half a dozen animal rights activists, their feathers ruffled, trying to save the fowl from a foul fate."

The chickens referred to in the article, "I-95 Becomes Chicken Stew" were dumped on a Virginia highway when the truck carrying them took a curve too fast on an Interstate 95 ramp and overturned en route from North Carolina to a slaughter-house in New Jersey. It was August 1995.

As I stepped into the basement of the ASPCA in New York City in October 2005 to help transport the chickens rescued from my current hometown of Brooklyn to a sanctuary for safe-keeping, the almost forgotten, but never absent memory of that day over ten years earlier came flooding back.

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Oh, before I forget… while practicing insomnia the other night, I finally made myself one o’ those Amazon.com wishlists all the kids are crazy about these days. Feelin’ generous? Go ‘head… make the list shorter. Used is fine. Really… After all, my birthday is only 3 short months away.

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