“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."
Jul 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
American cinema entered freefall the moment they did away with gratuitous scenes of steamy, backlit boning
Can you imagine any of the Marvel characters fucking
Jan 7, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
This is probably a good time to tell the convoluted story of how I ended up participating in a stranger's memorial service at a strip club in East St. Louis after dropping off my kids at their grandma's.
The trip back to Chicago usually passes through St. Louis. There was a Biblical rainstorm that day (important) and a big rush-hour traffic jam, so Google Maps gave me a route around the city. Possible that somewhere along the way I missed a turn.
Jan 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Moved into what we believed was a three bedroom apartment. Discovered a fourth, hidden bedroom—still furnished and filled with the clothes, records, and diaries of a hip art student who had lived there 15 years ago.
This discovery was followed by a gothic sequence of calamities, including a traumatic car accident that, for a time, left my wife effectively bed-ridden, with her eyes wrapped in bandages. I tell this story a lot. It gets a lot weirder.
