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An Ode to Love

A really talented artist died today. I didn’t know Carlos Batts well, but he and his wife, April Flores, were so in love and just exuded so much sweetness, that I’ve been sad all day thinking about him and about her. I’ve been single for a long time,...

On Miley, Disney, Elton and the Lost Art of Creativity

Will Rogers once said, “”Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.” Advertising is the art of persuading you to buy — and then buy some more.But if it was that simple,...

I Was An LAPD Reject (part one)

I wanted to be a spy when I grew up, until my mother told me that girls don’t play with guns.  Then I decided I would be Lady Diana, instead.But the fascination with cops and criminality didn’t stop.  It just grew latent, relegated to fiction and...

Mother Misfit and the Absence of Sex (Appeal)

In honor of her upcoming album, and the, um, eye-catching new cover art for her collaboration with R. Kelly, I’ve pulled this piece out of the archives:Recently, the Council of Fashion Designers of America gave their Fashion Icon Award to Lady Gaga. This award...

Honesty in Dating, R.I.P.

In my Critical Thinking class, I routinely assign an essay about Herman Rosenblat. (For those who haven’t heard about him, he wrote the book Angel at the Fence, which he claimed was a true story about his experiences during the Holocaust but which turned out to be...