T.V. used to be just for fun. We watched light fiction like Lucy, or Newhart or the CBS Evening News. We could flip on the T.V. knowing that we wouldn’t be troubled by thought. Then PBS came along. All of a sudden, thought was a requirement for watching television. You had to think if [...]

  In my teens and twenties my body and I saw things in exactly the same way; we were virtually inseparable. We had an understanding. I fed it all the junk I wanted, never took it out for any kind of formal exercise and it maintained its trim, teenage shape. Somewhere (I think around my [...]

  You see them on TV all the time; houses which are nicer, cleaner, and more attractive than yours the same way a runway model is more appealing than any member of the 1972 East German Women’s Swim Team. The camera lovingly pans around showing scenes of impossible beauty like an elegant kitchen filled with [...]

  For three years I had an arch-nemesis who taxed my patience, cunning and intelligence. This would be a whole lot cooler if she stood more than two feet tall and weighed more than more than fifteen pounds. I’m talking, of course, about actress Linda Hunt. Not really. I wish it was as impressive as [...]