Out

Everyone is always coming out all the time, if they are creative and growing. If you’re gay, and you do the big “coming out,” maybe you are a step ahead. Everyone has to come out of one cocoon after another. I feel quite grouchy about it just now, although I guess it’s beautiful and all. […]

Travelogue

Southern California: I rode in the wild animal cage and I roared. With two fingers, I nudged a jellyfish’s slick rubber being. Touch the top of his head, gooey like a baby’s soft spot. Not the tentacles. San Antonio: Two working faced men playing Mexican marimba, many empty flamingo-long daiquiri cups, and two brown boys […]

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is the saddest of lands. Its original purpose was to showcase how amazing the future was about to be. Adventure, Fantasy, and the Frontier were easy to present. Tomorrow is slippery. Tomorrowland was neglected by the Disneyland’s designers from the get-go, and then over the years, no one quite knew what to do with […]

Sanctuary

When I was nineteen, I spent a lot of time with Duncan Philips. At my college, which was known for its preponderance of black clothing and lesbians, a course in economics was going to be Economics of the Arts. And I was going to study patronage, a subject I knew about only so far as […]