If this is your first time hearing this you are about to experience something so cold. —Kanye West, “We Don’t Care” This is an essay several months in the making, the product of several inadvertent stints of “research” that include: 1. Finding a full, nearly brand-new Jansport backpack in the trash can and, of course, […]

Last night I had to end a phone call with an old friend because “I [was] going to see the new Star Trek movie” at the local second-run movie theater. He said, at first, not having seen it, he looked forward to hearing what I thought about it, but then, “I’ll just read the essay […]