Borders Books Part Two

Part Two of my Borders Books piece for Re:Print at Pop Matters is now running: Borders—and, by extension, all book stores—fulfills and exploits a basic human need; just as financial institutions, realtors, and landlords exploit for profit the basic human need for shelter, so too does the book merchant capitalize on the elemental human craving [...]

Borders Books: Corporate Media Heroin

A few weeks ago my editors at Pop Matters promoted me and another colleague, Michael Buening, to the role of associate editor of the Re:Print blog, (the books blog at PM) which is in need of an overhaul. My first contribution as co-editor of Re:Print is running in the new Front Page segment: It takes a [...]

Snow in Las Vegas

As of 3:20 pm this afterneoon, the heavy rain in Summerlin has changed to snow.

Reconstructing Bukowski

I was watching the Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News this bone-chilling winter evening. The local weather report break tells me that we might get down to freezing temperatures here in Summerlin overnight; a storm front is coming in from … Bakersfield, California. Sometimes we get cold Arctic blasts from Idaho in the winter. I’m too accustomed [...]

Red Rock Diary: Labor Day Part 4, The Limping Man

I would like to say that we arrived at Speedee-Mart without incident but such was not the case. When I announced that we had missed the driveway of the gas station-convenience mart by half a block, Mr. Magoo made a sharp U-turn in the middle of a four-lane road with a lethal proficiency that caused images [...]