Ambivalinked, And iTunes

Here’s a blog I’ve been meaning to crow about for a while: Hal and Heather’s poetry blog. OK, I’ll admit, there are some things about this blog I don’t understand. For example, the… Read More →

Gmail chat: Catch the fever (A Zombie Tale)

The following is a chat between myself (JK) and Sad King Jonathan (SKJ), from 10:20 this morning. SKJ: What are you up to? JK: Just drinking heavily and listening to Mozart, what about… Read More →

Sleep and Spontaneity

When I ask myself why it is that I should so often wake up not under the sheet, or with my jaggedly V-necked undershirt still on, or with the lights blazing all night… Read More →

Grizzly Man, A Thought

Dear readers, In response to your questions: My exams are scheduled for the end of May. * This is inspired by uncomplicatedly’s wonderful new post on Georges Bataille and Simone Weil, which ends… Read More →

On being unable to blog

Dear readers, It’s been over a week since I updated here, and I apologize. Real life has been engrossing, but the many constraints imposed by writing under my real name have made it… Read More →

Betrayers: The full text of the talk on Genet, Joyce, Wilde, and Dylan

(x-posted to The Valve, of course) I’ve reproduced below the full text of my talk at UC Irvine on crime and political conscience in modern art. Since the talk is designed to give… Read More →

These Aren’t Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog

Dear readers, In case you are one of those curious omnivores who want to read about the Law, here are two people covering the subject in surprising and compulsively readable ways. Lawyerverse. Wherein… Read More →

One Art: Epigraphs And A Sketch of Loss

Let one ponder this and then think on a little further; certainly no-one will then speak of a ‘drive to knowledge in and for itself’! —Why then does man prefer the true to… Read More →

Please Let The Devil Write Both Halves Of The Movie

The devil rides with me again He always says everything’s okay Maybe I’m losing sleep over nothing Maybe I’ll be just fine -Beulah, “Me And Jesus Don’t Talk Anymore” Today is International Women’s… Read More →

Where I’m going, where I have been

I’ve been here and there in the blogosphere, so the absence of new posts is really an invitation to check out some fierce debates with remarkable writers. Thanks to all for your comments… Read More →