Posts Tagged ‘life’
Stone Monument
Kristian LinI feel like I’m having a flashback to the early 1990s, because I’m pissed off at Oliver Stone. Again. I didn’t think he could do it. He was once one of Hollywood’s most vital talents, certainly its most controversial.
Universal Hope
BooksAs a genre, gay fiction came into its own in the late ’80s/early 1990s, but the coming-out party felt more like a wake. The terrorizing effects of AIDS provided a generation of homosexual men with grand themes like mortality,...
Velveteen Rabbit
Kristian LinThe Night Listener has a great story, so great that it indirectly causes the movie’s downfall. It’s based on an Armistead Maupin novel, which in turn was based on an incident that actually happened to the author. Watching t...
The Good Fight
JESSE JAMES DECONTOFive years ago outside the Walls Unit in Huntsville, on the night the State of Texas prepared to execute Lois Robison’s son, young photographer Scott Langley watched as she screamed and cried on the sidewalk.
Good Twig Bunting
BooksAuthor and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Bouton once wrote that statistics are “about as interesting as first-base coaches.” He has a point. First-base coaches are all about patting players on the butt, telling r...
Gram Parsons
Listen UpFallen Angel, a documentary on singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, has an interesting angle: that the Southern man’s career goal was to die young and become a legend. This charismatic, troubled, self-assured, and self-indulgent r...
Fahrenheit 911
Global warming will kill us all unless we change, says Al Gore.Kristian Lin
Did you see Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch a few weeks ago? The one that had Al Gore winning the 2000 presidential election and leading America to universal health care, gasoline at 19 cents a gallon, an $11 trillion bu...
The Flaming Heart
Why should gays be denied the pleasures of Catholic guilt?Jimmy Fowler
On the recent April night when I became a Catholic, my feet hurt like hell.