A ten-year-old boy doesn’t want a hyper-dexterous giant to choke, just as a ten-year-old girl doesn’t feel good when Britney Spears has a nervous breakdown on live TV. Only an adult can feel good abou...
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really need anything new, so we only create what...
My personal war against the so-called soccer menace probably reached its peak in 1993, when I was nearly fired from a college newspaper for suggesting that soccer was the reason thousands of Brazilian...
But it would be far more effective—and considerably more inventive—to enact that same process with a text that has no preexisting meaning. A book that is just a book: the forgotten airport bestseller...
Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK’s leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an...
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable.
The defining line from Frank Herbert’s Dune argues that the mystery of life is not a question to be answered but a reality to be experienced. My fantasy offers the opposite. Nothing would be experienc...
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid...