Road, Trip
Things are getting bad: Family problems, money, the itch, again. Should Manny Santiago end it now or revisit The Trip, and try to work it all out?
Mapping the Empire
We are a culture of collectively useless maps. Temporary tracings of lead-lined roads destined for incomplete blurbs in fractured future histories. The End Is Always Nigh. A permanent thrust. An endless surge. A future replete with the repeated follies of past failures. A perpetual one-night stand. I think about making lists, lists like the above, [...]
Dim Sum Dreams
I have dreams about Dim Sum sometimes, strange L.A. Chinatown fantasies with roasted ducks hanging in steamed windows and big oak tree butcher blocks worn smooth and bowled in the center from years of cleaving and carving, back tables behind secret doors, huge lazy susans revolving egg drop soups and wontons past immaculate jade green [...]
