The other morning I woke up in the middle of an unusually vivid dream in which I’d somehow found myself trapped on the rotting hulk of the Bob-Lo boat.
The Bob-Lo boat (there were actually two of them, the Ste. Claire and the Columbia) was a magical, wondrous craft that ferried people from downtown Detroit to [...]

I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care.  Repo Men, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, portrays a dystopian future (is there any other kind these days?) in which private enterprise’s control over the medical system has reached its logical [...]

For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one time, though, that an actual disaster happened, I never saw it coming.

by conventional standards, we are broke, or very nearly so. But thanks for noticing now, Republicans; a shame it escaped your notice when you — that’s right, you — were busily bankrupting us.

It’s been a couple days now and I’m still buzzing from the two Green Day shows earlier this week [July 27 and 28]. I feel more like a teenager than I did when I actually was one. Back in May I said that Green Day’s Webster Hall show was possibly the best I’d ever seen, [...]