Archive for 1980s

Essay: “Fast Food”

Essay: “Fast Food”

By day, I handed a drive-through order to a man whose testicles lay outside his nylon running shorts, like a small bald rodent. ….   The good people at Okey-Panky published my short essay “Fast Food” today. Please read it, and browse the site; there’s so…

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Rewind: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves

Rewind: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves

Annie Lennox has been on my mind ever since her air harmonica moment as part of her killer Grammys performance. So it was only natural that when “sisters” was the topic of the day in a Facebook “Song Lyric Game” group I’m in, I thought…

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