Don’t Say the A-Word! Part II: Shameless — Our Sixties AbortionIn Don’t Say the A-Word! Part I, I noted that most mainstream films skirt the abortion issue entirely. Only a few recent films have…Dec 5Dec 5
Don’t Say the A-Word! Part I: Juno — Our Sixties AbortionThe formula for popular culture to be popular hasn’t really changed much in eighty years. What drives audiences and critics to rave about…Sep 30Sep 30
REEL2Real 1: Mark Leeuwenburgh’s Surprising EncounterThis new video series uses the medium of Tiktok. It is called REEL2Real. I interview men and women in the street and ask them for…Dec 30, 2023Dec 30, 2023
The Power of PoetryWhen W. H. Auden read at Bartley College in 1967, he said “Poetry makes nothing happen.” This pronouncement so distressed David Ramsdell he…Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023
Putting What Where: A Vintage Book Review of for GIRLS only by Dr. Frank Howard Richardson (1953)Why am I writing about a seventy-year-old sex education manual? Everybody knows they were conservative back then, and that lapses of…Jul 16, 2023Jul 16, 2023
I Owe It All to John CarpenterHe made me the videographer I am today. Sort of.Jun 16, 2023Jun 16, 2023
My First DiaphragmSometimes you meet someone when you’re twenty who has such an effect on you, you remember what they said and how they talked. If you’re…May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
The Night That Opera Saved My Ass“A priest, a minister and a rabbi are discussing when life begins. The priests says, ‘It begins at conception’. The minister says, ‘Life…Mar 24, 2023Mar 24, 2023