Cloned!

Ok, this kind of freaked me out. My sister, who is visiting here from Seattle with her boyfriend, found this photo in an old family photo album: It’s a picture of my dad in 1979, holding my sister, coming home from the maternity ward. It was weird to see how...

The Joy Luck Club sucks

I found this old essay online today, titled Why the Joy Luck Club Sucks. I was happy to find it, because for years I’ve had the same opinion, yet whenever I’d tell people that I hated this film, they would say, “Why? It’s such a great...

Paul Potts Polpot

I flew into Montreal for my last weekly trip for a while. Montreal looked ghostly as I arrived. It was snowing yet again, and as the plane descended through the clouds, I saw that the entire city was cloaked in shades of white. On the tarmac, airplanes coasted...

Lovely

She’s Marie Digby, youtube.com success story. See more here. I like seeing what musicians do to build their own fan base, now that the traditional model of making and selling music is dead. Go Marie! In other news, here’s a video filmed in...