The New Lexicon Of Sex
July 29, 2019
50 Shades of Grey, Chads, gay, homosexual, Incels, lesbian, mysogyny, normies, pangender, Staceys, the lexicon of sex, the sexual divide and the internet0 Comment
No, it’s not nostalgia. Life was simpler in the good old days. Sex for example. When I was growing up, people were either heterosexual or homosexual. Then male homosexuals and female homosexuals had a falling out and we had three divides: heterosexual, gay and lesbian. I had
Continue Reading →Writing Posthumously
April 06, 2015
50 Shades of Grey, H. J. Jackson, Immortal Beloved, Those Who Write for Immortality, Twilight, William Giraldi
Last Friday, I wrote about the importance of solitude in an artist’s life. Today, I’m following up with a similar theme based on a review of H. J. Jackson’s, Those Who Write for Immortality. (”Immortal Beloved,” by William Giraldi, The New Republic, March 2015, p
Continue Reading →Fifty Shades Of Grey Or Less
March 23, 2015
50 Shades of Grey, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Creative Destruction, death of the humanities, Neil Postman, Scott Timber, supporting the arts, the blockbuster culture, The Killing of the Creative Class, William Giraldi
Two of the least effective words in the English language are “ought” and “should” which, when employed, are more likely to annoy rather than influence a person’s behavior. If “ought’ and “ should” had any clout, obesity would be conquered, along with alcoholism and
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