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What is the difference between a hero and a nut? I'm thinking of Robert Downey, Jr. in Iron Man: he's brilliant and stupid at the sa...

No Meatloaf Today By Jana Martin/MOLI written 8/29/07 for my daily design column which is now defunct on moli.com, which is now ... differen...

Minutes of the Unofficial Boiceville Design Committee By Jana Martin/MOLI written 08/17/2007 The local diner considers the "product of ...

Sex and debt: Entwistle, forlorn in debt and trolling for sex on the internet. Did he really shoot his wife and daughter as they slept, in W...

The distortion of mood upon the same as it ever was no matter the small mercies of mornings or afternoons and despite or because of constant...

Back from the Trenches My friends at the writing group Who Wants Cake are winning over the world with their good writing group mantras. If y...

Ne'er Do Evers Doing Well Chris Buckridge has a great band . He was starting it when I lived in Carroll Gardens, a hipster obsessive wi...

Minnewaska Fire We could smell it coming over the mountains in High Falls, that dreadful dry and crispy smell, a few thousand acres of wildl...

Iconographies of a Personal Disaster front porch red roof irises blue bathrobe white bare feet rickety old table rain-flooded stream

Flickering cowboy Quickmuse shows how thinking can happen in poems. How it gets shortcutted into a footbridge over the chasm. How editing i...

Stop Go Stop Go Working on a new book has its disadvantages. It tends to take advantage of my guilt. Any moment I am standing still a though...