After and Before
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter plans flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on…
A review of being talked at about Oakland by the car attendant of the California railroad museum’s 45 minute excursion train ride through West Sacramento
If it’s pointed out to you, while you rumble along the tracks, you can just see the field where the Sacramento River Cats play in West Sacramento, which is where now the team once called the Oakland Athletics plays, apparently quite badly, and although they are officially only called the Athletics–no city name attached–the uniformed,…
We Do Not Part (except when we do): A review of forgetting Han Kang’s Human Acts.
Han Kang’s We Do Not Part is a novel about Han Kang remembering having written Human Acts, a novel which I remember remembering a lot better than I remember reading. I have things I say about that novel, of course, because I remember saying them seven years ago, when Human Acts was the “hey, the…
A review of being yelled at by a guy whose defaced Tesla you were just seen photographing
I didn’t say anything back to the guy who had just gotten out of his parked car and cursed at me; in my memory, raised my hands, palm-up, in a kind of IRL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ though with, perhaps, probably, less of a smile. I raised my eyebrows, in my memory, as if to say “look, man,…
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