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things of the past

things of the past

  There was a brief thing, a relationship, between a young man and a young woman. Young meaning twenty or so. Young meaning dumb. The love affair mattered more to one of them than it did to the other. Turns out, it mattered more to him. She’s gone. Nothing...
brother steve

brother steve

  “I started tweeting for purely commercial reasons. I realized that when I did a television show to promote a book or record, and that television show had an audience of, say, four million people, about four hundred of them rushed out to buy the book or...
cryptozoology

cryptozoology

When she’s lying to avoid punishment, she may have broken one of the household rules. For instance, she may have damaged something she shouldn’t have been handling. Or maybe she was too rough and she hurt one of her playmates. In any case, she’s...
tony couldn’t fly

tony couldn’t fly

  Billy Wilder: I made it a little bit more difficult for myself with Sunset Boulevard. It was about the closest of things, you know, to make a picture about Hollywood, about an old star, falling love with a young writer, and committing suicide, attempting...
hairdressing (peluquería)

hairdressing (peluquería)

Don’t cut it too short. No me lo corte demasiado corto. no me lo kor-te de-ma-sya-do kor-to Shave it all off! Aféitelo todo! A-fay-te-lo to-do Please use a new blade. Por favor, use una cuchilla nueva.  Por fa-vor oo-se oo-na koo-chee-lya nwe-va I should never have...