Adrienne Rich was one of those special people who knew a lot about love, and she enriched the world by sharing her deft perceptions channeled into exquisite poetry. She knew the female experience in all its potential: young wife, mother of 3, then awaking in midlife to her erotic desire for women.
I discovered Rich in college, amid the operatic intensity of life that is the coed's lot. I formed...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Madness Contained Until Tomorrow(land)
Some thoughts from back when we last left Don, a year and a half ago. And the Mad Men tag will take you to posts from various specific episodes over the last four years. It helps to be reminded why people are making the season 5 premiere an event. More about that later.
Another season, another reason,...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
“Lamh Dearg Eirinn”: On Every Street Corner in the Great City of New York!
Somewhere in the late 1970s there was a commercial on Channel 11, WPIX, with Penn & Teller. They were running around New York looking for some way to announce a new identity for WPIX, but nothing was big enough. Then they come up from a subway somewhat uptown from the still-new World Trade Center....
Sunday, March 11, 2012
#SaveSueSimmons: A Real New York Story
Lloyd Boston, the style guy on the Today Show, summed up the Sue Simmons "how can she be fired?" phenomenon for a generation:I am in shock! Besides TVPIX, THIS woman practically raised me from the tube every day after school.The seventies and early eighties were simpler times. There were no personal...
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