It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

The other night I tried to read part of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, $18) while I was very sleepy, which meant that the story, which is hard enough to follow when you're fully awake and completely engaged, took on a dreamy quality that I sort of enjoyed. After all, it sometimes reads as if Pynchon wrote the thing in a similar state. ...more

August 31, 2008

It is probably true that in the cable neighborhood Hillsborough County's public/government access channels have been exiled to the coaxial equivalent of Elba meets Area 51. ...more

December 15, 2007