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Tag Archives: friends
Maps and letters and, finally, the dreaded white longjohns
Another meetup with Antonio, my boyfriend from long ago. It’s been so fun and something I couldn’t have seen happening for years. What’s been cool is it affirms why the whole thing happened in the first place: we are friends. … Continue reading
July 2025 Snapshots
Dark times. Trying to enjoy things! I’m out of practice! Kitten sitting for my brother and Melody. The kittens are sisters. They are bonded and sleep together, bathing each other. When they curl up together, you can’t tell where one … Continue reading
#tbt Only connect
I wrote a little bit about this in the recent snapshots. I recently got together with my first boyfriend, Antonio. Our relationship was such ancient history it’s hard to feel its relevance to my every day world, but it is … Continue reading
May 2025 Snapshots
The biggest news of the month is that my book is available for pre-order. It’s about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (no release date yet for the film, but it will be this fall). I interviewed everyone, from Guillermo himself, to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged family, Frankenstein, friends, Guillermo del Toro, Ireland, Robert Kaplan, snapshots, The Beatles
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The DMV of Love
In 2008, Keith and Dan had me out to their place in Brooklyn for dinner. They were new people to me, and I was just starting to “circulate” in the New York film critic community, through writing for Matt Seitz’s … Continue reading
April 2025 Snapshots
Had breakfast with one of my oldest friends (she who rescued a hawk, in a blazing act of bravery, which I think the hawk recognized and appreciated). We now live pretty near each other, which is wild, after me living … Continue reading
March 2025 Snapshots
Mitchell’s change purse Our new normal. The water jug is the third in our polyamorous relationship. Frankie likes it to be there so he can push back against it, or wrap himself around it. If the water jug isn’t there, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Dubravka Ugrešić, family, friends, John Keats, L.M. Montgomery, snapshots
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“The notion of ‘building a career’ had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.” — Vanessa Redgrave
My friend Dan Callahan wrote the first major biography of Vanessa Redgrave, and he is voluminous on the topic: her career, her gift as an actress. Dan is one of the best writers today on the art of acting (and … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Movies, On This Day, Television, Theatre
Tagged England, friends
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#tbt Scene: Warehouse in Manhattan, West 20s, late 90s
One of our classmates in grad school lived in an illegal “apartment” in a mostly empty warehouse in the West ’20s. She occupied the whole entire floor, and she put up partitions. The space was massve and it had huge … Continue reading