• Avenue

    Certainly one of the finer avenues in St. Paul. Stunning in autumn, when the leaves are red on top. A ravishing red, and branches moving about like the shoulders of busy raised arms.

  • Neologism in Progress

    As an unlicensed sociologist and amateur lexicographer, I have a observed a new thing, and I remark here and now that it needs a name.

  • Jobs Reconsidered

    Steve Jobs pulling off 5 masks on his hospital bed, complaining that they are poorly designed, is the pinnacle of buffoonery.  Isaacson wrote the bio, and now Gladwell has synthesized it in The New Yorker, adding his own thoughts on the man who surely will receive the 2011 Posthumous Lionization Award.  I happen to agree with …

  • Plugs

    The Loft’s Spring online class catalog has launched. For the Winter/Spring 2012 term, I’m taking my class “Everyday Drama” into the virtual realm. It’s an 8-week fiction workshop, conducted online, starting February 13. Get the details and register here. Email me with questions.