Down With Tyranny

feat. Howie Klein

Oct 195 min read

To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest: Rebellion, Music And Personal Truth

Sometimes I Wonder If Everyone Is As Transgressive As I Am I wasn’t really a Bob Dylan early adapter. I missed the 1962 eponymous debut...

May 169 min read

I'm Certain That Sartre Would Agree That The MAGA Movement Poses An Existential Threat To Democracy

Also Political Violence— Reminiscent Of 1930s Italy And Germany This is objectively, provably true: far right extremism poses an...

Sep 1, 20234 min read

A Couple Of Books That Changed My Life-- Jean Genet's Thief's Journal & John Rechy's City Of Night

A Young Man Seeking Liberation Through Transgressive Experiences Once I got an inkling I was gay, I was never for a moment interested in...

Mar 28, 202312 min read

An Evening Of Poetry-- By Hal... My Heuristically Programmed ALgorithmic Computer

Yesterday I shared a poem about Jewish billionaires who have funded Trump and his anti-semitic MAGA movement that Hal composed in the...

Jan 25, 20237 min read

Pope Says Homosexuality Is A Sin, Not A Crime… Gee, Thanks?

Maybe ChatGPT Has A Different Perspective? That's a very old picture. Yesterday, Pope Francis was interviewed by Nicole Winfield from the...

Jan 25, 20239 min read

Artificial Intelligence For Lauren Boebert (And George Santos, Or Whatever His Name Is)

Not every member of Congress is as stupid as your average Republican— let alone Lauren Boebert. Ted Lieu, for example, simultaneously...

Aug 15, 20223 min read

Jean Genet Only Made One Film; Tonight's Your Chance To Watch It

One of my old friends is a worldwide celebrity now. He was just coming up when we first met 30-40 years ago. Now no one in the world...

Jan 17, 20225 min read

The Same People Afraid Of Books Are Afraid Of Democracy

Book banning is something they do in fascist countries, not democracies. Although the practice starts becoming prevalent as a democracy...

Jun 8, 20214 min read

You Feel Normal? Or Like An Outlaw? Just Askin'

Jean Genet's classic Thief's Journal, set in 1930s Europe, was published the year after I was born. Reading it as a young man, I could...

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