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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...


Nov 11, 20241 min read
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,...


Sep 28, 20242 min read
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...

Jul 26, 20244 min read
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.


Apr 11, 20243 min read
#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....

Mar 21, 20242 min read
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...


Dec 18, 20231 min read
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...

Feb 16, 20229 min read
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,...

Jul 1, 20211 min read
#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...
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