Monthly Archives: December 2016

I’m done talking about our national disgrace for now. Here’s a portrait of Akira, who is sadly no longer with us. Thanks for reading and looking. See ya next year, Dmitry p.s. This is a portrait of Lego, who’s still alive.

Movie lists are stupid. And yet, every year around this time every newspaper, culture site, blog, radio station, shopping circular, what have you, trumpets their picks. I spent much of this year playing movie critic as one of my side gigs and thus saw more movies than any other year in memory. A good chunk of whatContinue reading “What I saw in 2016”

Last week I got an unexpected email. It was from my ex-girlfriend Shay. We broke up nearly two years ago and have had almost no contact in the past year. I wouldn’t presume to know all the reasons why this has been so, but suffice it to say that she wanted to have nothing toContinue reading “Renewal”