Today we look back at our forecast at the beginning of the month to see how we did, wish millions of blessings upon dear betrothed friends, and go to a protest and feel weird about it At long last, we come round once more to the point at which we review the month of July…Read More
Articles from July 2019
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The Black Circle Spins On
Musical choices define who we are as individuals — and the ways we listen to music can help define society That hiss when the needle connects with the vinyl, pregnant with static and anticipation. The mechanical whirling of a compact disc coming to life, it’s secrets laying within. The clicks and whirls of a walkman…Read More
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Late-July Chris and the Alchemy of John Popper (Dispatches from the Underground)
The joys of old friends, harmonica mysticism, and rooting around shirtless for blueberries like an animal “Late July Chris is the best Chris” — that’s what our elusive friend SB said to me a couple nights ago. The comment was made in a Facebook event page for an upcoming performance at Boston’s Wilbur by the…Read More
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There Stands Our Holy Ground
A sliver of a late June journey — five wood elves at an open-air mixer with gods and songs, trials and glimmers of real reality We begin. I’m immediately winded. I’ve always gotten winded easily, even when I was a trained runner in my prime. I love where we are, but this feels abusive right…Read More
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Dreamscapes: Mad-Eyed Moody’s Doom — and Mine
When a well-known villain gets into the city and hunts me down, I’ve only got one chance Our city is on maximum alert: Voldemort is in town. I have been assigned to a special ops team. Voldemort’s surveillance has already caught onto our mission, but little does he know that it’s actually a decoy mission,…Read More
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A Love Letter as Prayer
Our definitions of love change along with our phases of life I’m in love with one of my best friends, and we’ve never met. It’s true. We first started talking in an online forum for people who like fringe art and burlesque movements. She was already married, and happily too. While we were not close…Read More
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Bob Dylan and the Carnival of America
We need to actually live our lives in our world if we hope to save either Nothing is ever just one thing and all of life is rife with contradiction, sentiments embodied no less in Bob Dylan as in America itself. It’s impossible to watch The Rolling Thunder Revue, Martin Scorsese’s new Dylan documentary on Netflix,…Read More
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First Love?
Recalling the special people we meet at those crucial times while we figure “love” out — and before our paths diverge forever The first of her relations I met was her mother, and Nicole and her mother were close. “Best friends,” Nicole told me. Funny, I couldn’t recall ever being best friends with my mother.…Read More
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Crystal Aunts and the Crying Lorax (Dispatches from the Underground)
Sometimes you can figure out the good old days while you’re still living them Welcome to the new half of the year! The change has come and we are in it now. Look around — you can tell even if you haven’t quite noticed. The wave has broken, you can see it in the shadows…Read More
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Running Toward Roots
When moving dredges up phantoms from the past, we sometimes discover we’ve come further than we’d ever dreamed When I tentatively left Boston to move in with my now-husband Kurt an hour north in New Hampshire, I was determined that his house was going to be the one I died in. Our children were going…Read More