He went on to say: The fact that there is a project in Oregon set to translate all of Shakespeare into contemporary English only shows me my laments about the state of literacy have been valid–yet I do not object entirely to modernizations. I do object, though, that we pretend that Shakespeare is unintelligible without […]

Yashujiro Ozu [an extension of my more monologic imaginative interplay with experience]

I despise the notion of authenticity, especially in the ways it has been used, been corrupted, been manipulated, managed, marketed in marketing and not anything like an organic marketplace. The most Japanese director? What kind of question is that? I do not know what that question, or any question similar to it, means. What could it […]

Re-contextualization; or, Clutching at Cliche Constructed Straws [fiction]

X: Stop telling me I’m fighting backwards because I critique the boobery of our contemporaneity . You are contempo-centric to a fault. Y: But you do fight backwards. Every single day you lament the state of things as they are against what they were and should have become but have not, you fight […]

A Fool’s Errand [to be added to the collection of pieces that amount to The Life and Opinions of Thomas Sarebbononnato]

Prologue A man not so much unlike another man I met when I was only a little younger than I am today, as if this day were not so unlike any other day in my life, each day of my life . . . what is it that I think I want to say […]

Rioting is Rioting; Looting is Looting; Truth is in Tautology?

New York City Council members have written a letter highlighting the presence of privileged White people among the protesters, perhaps insinuating that White people from outside their communities are primarily or singularly responsible for the violence, the vandalism and the looiing? With reference to the looting, I did not see out-of-town privileged white people in […]

COVID 19 and African American Responses to State Mandates

In a March 13th article by Loanne O’Neal, concerning the effects of COVID 19 on African Americans and the threat it poses, in THE UNDEFEATED, the author notes, while quoting Dr. George C. Benjamin, the African American executive director of the American Public Health Association, that . . . [f]or a whole host of economic, […]

Fumble after Fumble on COVID 19

“A coordinated response from the CDC, the FDA, and the White House would have been important in containing the virus in the early stages,” Thomas Tsai, a health policy researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, told Business Insider. “And we missed that opportunity.” ––Aaron Short, Business Insider What have we had in place […]

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