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Monthly Archives: October 2013

I Was an LAPD Reject (part three)

October 30, 2013

I would say that this next step in the process terrified me the most, but it didn’t. After my background …

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12 Years a Slave, Torture Porn, and the Unfortunate Problem of American Apathy

October 26, 2013

There’s a term in cinema called the “snuff film.” A snuff film, for those lucky enough not to know, is …

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I Was an LAPD Reject (part two)

October 24, 2013

We ran laps around the track and on the streets around the academy. If you were in the beginner group, …

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An Ode to Love

October 23, 2013

A really talented artist died today. I didn’t know Carlos Batts well, but he and his wife, April Flores, were …

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On Miley, Disney, Elton and the Lost Art of Creativity

October 22, 2013

Will Rogers once said, “”Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t …

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I Was An LAPD Reject (part one)

October 22, 2013

I wanted to be a spy when I grew up, until my mother told me that girls don’t play with …

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Mother Misfit and the Absence of Sex (Appeal)

October 20, 2013

In honor of her upcoming album, and the, um, eye-catching new cover art for her collaboration with R. Kelly, I’ve …

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Honesty in Dating, R.I.P.

October 17, 2013

In my Critical Thinking class, I routinely assign an essay about Herman Rosenblat. (For those who haven’t heard about him, …

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Why I Love Mindy Kaling

October 14, 2013

I’ll be honest. I didn’t actively seek out Mindy Kaling. Hulu kept suggesting that I watch The Mindy Project after …

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Why Gravity Falls Flat

October 11, 2013

That Hollywood is a boy’s club is so self-evident, I have zero interest in repeating the common arguments or restating …

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  • Haunted Homes [excerpt] December 17, 2020
    The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Haunted Homes, out Spring 2021 via Rutgers University Press. “Even serial …Continue reading →
  • Construction Workers Are Not Disposable April 29, 2020
    In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news these last few weeks, things are pretty fucked up. Not …Continue reading →
  • From AIDS to Corona, Silence=Death April 1, 2020
    In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal …Continue reading →
  • Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 4 March 27, 2020
    Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …Continue reading →
  • Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 3 March 22, 2020
    Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …Continue reading →
  • Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 2 March 20, 2020
    Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End …Continue reading →
  • If fear is their lifeblood, why didn’t Trump and the Republican Party embrace the Coronavirus? March 19, 2020
    Do you remember the migrant caravans? How can you not, right? You barely escaped with your life! In 2018 and …Continue reading →
  • Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 1 March 19, 2020
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  • When Dave Chappelle tried to make a room full of people laugh at me, it backfired, and they laughed at him. But I’m not laughing. December 23, 2019
    Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the …Continue reading →

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