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Reality TV - USC - Spring 2025!
USC is a lot bigger than Whittier Some unforeseen circumstances fell into place (do those two idioms work together? maybe no), and I have...
Feb 193 min read
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work & refuge -
...the corporate university + extractive media systems sometimes use labor of love discourse to exploit us... but go read these essays...
Feb 193 min read
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January 11, 2025 - the fires
Los Angeles – Jan 11, 2025 My city is on fire. ​ Last November, I went with a group of friends to see an art project at the Los Angeles...
Jan 113 min read
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NYC & ASAP
I went to New York in October for a seminar in ASAP, the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. I did write about improv,...
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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The Quaker Campus
It has been great to get back into the classroom with face-to-face contact with students. No one wants to talk about the pandemic...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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SOULHOUSE Rabbit Hole
You can get married on a talk show run by a guru who's tight with Mike Tyson. Please, someone, sign up for this.
Jul 26, 20244 min read
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#tbt - that time I met Alex Turner in a bar
[I wrote this in January 2014 on thisblueangel.com. Original comments screenshotted at the bottom.] At the end of 2013, I sat with S....
Apr 11, 20243 min read
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this blue angel
Sometime in college, when I was taking a film class, I wandered into a bookstore and opened one of those books that existed before the...
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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New chapter
I’m no longer Editor-in-Chief at LA Review of Books. I have stepped down to pursue other writing projects. I’m proud of the work that I...
Dec 18, 20231 min read
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In Memoriam -- Charles Chihara July 19 1932-Feb 16 2020
(posted in 2020) My brilliant, dashing, loving father, Charles Chihara, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,...
Feb 16, 20229 min read
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#vanlife road trip
We rented a van and went on an epic road trip to the Grand Canyon, Moab desert, Arches National Park, the four corners area, Colorado...
Jul 1, 20211 min read
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