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Six Degrees of Separation has been haunting my thoughts since I showed it in a disability studies class I'm teaching about alliance...

Skyfall , the new James Bond film, is exhilarating to watch to the point you forget it's a total retread.  The whole purpose of Bond ...

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else...

Ryan Murphy's The New Normal is a sitcom that has a prefabricated and self-congratulatory smarm all its own.  It feels so plastic t...

Ms. Apple An Anthony Luensman neon ladder. Saturday night I saw Fiona Apple at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, downtown Cincinnat...

Two things are coming together this year for me, and somehow the main nexus of this connection hits me hardest when I'm teaching the Dis...

  "Holding Hands for Safety" is in my collection of stories The Smallest People Alive, available on Amazon...   L. A...