Entering Sector D

The Washington Post today has a piece by staff writer Henry Allen called “Entering Sector D.” Naturally, given my name, I was interested. This is the first paragraph and-a-half:
There’s something about the word “disembowel.” Or “depravity,” or “disfigurement” — about so many words that begin with the letter “d.” Divorce, destitution, doubt, drugs, dirt, dwindle. [...]

A New Consideration of Time (February 25, 2003)

I have come to understand age, and ageing, no more as a function of furrowed brows or crows’ eyes, liver spots or wheezed breath. No; age is marked by the time it takes a work of art — film, in particular — to become irrelevant, or meaningless. For example: we can no longer laugh — [...]

Designer Clubs

Designer clubs
Rocco Laudizio talks about Sound-Bar and the making of Chicago nightlife
David Schneider

There were hundreds of people on Sound-Bar’s dance floor a couple of Friday nights ago, all off their heads and delirious, belting out the words to Green Velvet’s techno-funk classic “La La Land,” and not one of them [...]