On Joan Didion’s Democracy
This is a novel, not a memoir, and yet, like in much of Didion’s work, she inserts herself in the narrative, can be heard over […]
The New Censorship: Not An Option
Where does it stop? How many authors and artists and other figureheads must fall before the madness subsides? […]
The New Censorship: Defacement
Most of history doesn’t fit in with the present. That much we can agree on. But we can’t rewrite everything to suit the […]
On Writing And Cutting: Don’t Get Too Comfortable
The text reads well. Still, I cut it. Thick black strikethrough lines from end to end — then started a new draft on the […]
On Being Different – Pt. 2 (Inspired By Convenience Store Woman)
The casualty that no one talks about, the one that will haunt us long after Shysters R Us are gone, is the inevitable vilification of […]
On Being Different (Inspired By Convenience Store Woman)
A story for outsiders and free-thinkers. Subtly profound, as one writer put it. A reminder how the world thrives on conformity, and that […]
Lively Times
The Trumpster has left town and the stink of dated and obsolete mentalities-slash-disease has gone with him. The loony lefties who constitute part of the […]
So Far, So Good … Behind The Mirror
This early Megadeth album served as one of the major inspirations for Xavier’s psyche and state of mind in Behind The Mirror (2015) […]
Action And Words
Today I learned a new phrase […]
That Great Moment
That great moment when you finish a piece of work nine years in the making, and then receive an email informing you that your work […]