“My haystacks weren’t tied down and I was starting to fear the wind.” —Bob Dylan from Chronicles I’m riding in an elevator at an art museum. It is a MODERN art museum so the elevator is very large, about the size of a middle-class kitchen. But it is...
“I will be performing my identity on limited engagement between birth and death.” —Mat Johnson tweet If you are on Twitter, then you know that a person’s clout and social status are reflected in the proportion of followers to following. If you are...
“The drama in my plays, I think, is nearly always people trying to reach each other . . . It’s true they’re confined inside their own skins, or their own cubicles, but they must try to get out as much as — they must try to find a common ground on which they can meet ....
1. If we were going to tell you something about yourself that will be important, and helpful, it would be that you were onto something when you started emptying big words of their meaning. Words like love, time, person. And also, ignore everyone. 2. It’s...
[based on dialogue with Caroline Kelley, Phd. and Tim Lyons, almost Phd.] How do we live? How do we live our lives? Self-help? Is Self-help our god? The Gay Science, Eternal Recurrence, Every Aspect of Your Life Will Be Repeated Again and Again, What If, a philosophy...
Hello Scratchers. This website isn’t going anywhere–all my old Itchy Banquet posts will remain here in the Archives (I love them all so much). HOWEVER, I have renamed the site BooTrundle.com to reflect the human being who is making this stuff, and to allow...
