“I’m Gonna Try for the Kingdom”: On The Velvet Underground’s “Heroin”
On my mission in Puerto Rico, I had a companion who was an ex-pothead. To be clear, he never bragged about it or anything; but whenever we encountered a toker on the streets, he always seemed to know just a touch more about marijuana than you would expect an LDS missionary to know. One […]
Standby
Listen, I don’t want no guff from you—because life is already so staggeringly capricious and unfair as it is, that on the ultra-rare occasions when it is so in your favor, you learn to take the money and run. Hence, when a chance arises to go on what is in effect an all-expense-paid round-trip to […]
Low and the Hermeneutics of Silence
In the days before CDs and Auxiliary-jacks came standard, I recall having to hit the Seek button on the cassette-deck of my parent’s 1996 Ford Taurus in order to find the next song…
Infinite Variations on a Sacred Theme
Perhaps there really is a single God of the Multiverse filtering all possible Earths into the Celestial Kingdom well before interstellar space travel ever becomes possible.