HARD CRACKERS

5 seconds give or take. That’s all that is required for Alec Baldwin to disrupt your life. It was a normal day. I had stepped inside the corporate pharmacy to purchase a feminine hygiene product for my then partner. The cornucopia of options left me daunted and she had given no further instruction. I find […]

Review of When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile Twelve Books, 2022, $15.99 – 320 pages Over a decade ago, I came across a fascinating story about whom Vice News had dubbed the “Mormon Mansons”. The LeBaron Family is certainly a frightening bunch, a polygamist sect about 5 schisms removed from the Church […]

Don Hamerquist has been a revolutionary activist since the late 1950s. Over the course of more than sixty years, Don has been a working-class militant, a leader of organizations, an important strategic thinker, a considerate comrade and a prolific political writer. The collection of essays in this book is the first attempt to collect Don’s […]

Part of living in New York is accepting the brutality of rapid change with a cynical shrug as all you love and depend on vanish to make way for something almost certainly worse. Over the past couple years, I’ve seen this happen to the Metrocard–especially the unlimited Metrocard, which for my nearly two decades living […]

It was Sam’s last day with Bail Out Oklahoma, and he felt both relieved and somber walking down the corridor leading to C7 the final time. Ralph the Roach, the long dead and desiccated unofficial mascot of the jail’s visitation area remained unmolested in his final resting place on the carpet where he’d lain for […]

“Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.” Richard Burton – Welsh actor There’s this old gag. Elvis Presley, James Brown and Tom Jones go fishing together in a small boat on the ocean.  The craft gets capsized and they are all swallowed up by a gigantic whale. Deep […]