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Tintin in America
I prefer to have transactions with people who are bad at selling things. One should never hope for a fair fight in an adversarial relationship. It is…
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Love on Concrete Island
Here is a tale of the only time I've ever been to a strip club. It's set in Houston. In his short story Mexico, Rick Bass writes that people don't fall…
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Unknown Scents
I notice that people don't add descriptors of smell when you ask them how their day was. Not unless there was a sewage-related accident or they went on…
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Minority Report
I should have been a US citizen by now. A year ago, I blocked out a weekend to work on my application for naturalization. It took me three uninterrupted…
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August 2023
This Airbnb Does Not Avert its Eyes
Dear L&L, I'm up at 6 a.m. writing this review. I was awoken by the sound of an axe being dragged slowly and deliberately across the hardwood floor…
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Nolan's Reality
The first act of Christopher Nolan's new movie shows Robert Oppenheimer's doctorate years in Germany. This act comprises impressionistic visuals of…
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Galvanized Suitcase
Suitcases are very important in my family. For as long as I can remember there were two steel trunks, each about a meter wide and half a meter deep…
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How Much a Bagel Cost
It's the second week of August. Nothing good happens in the second week of August. No matter who you are - rich or poor, smart or hot, happy as a clam…
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July 2023
Upon this Trail
About three years ago, I visited my friend in Palo Alto to escape the Texas heat that had begun to take its toll. My ex-girlfriend of two and half years…
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Look in the Armoire
The other day I viewed the room-size installations of Amalia Mesa Bains at Berkely Art Museum. At the center of her work, Private Landscapes, is a…
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Dog Days at the Ballpark
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Songs From The Comatose Couch
I've been sick for the past week, and I've taken this time to explore the innards of the Criterion Collection. These days I've to be sick to my stomach…
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