The everchild. Sudden death comes to the cooing nation. This time the casualty is an “icon,” a word once applied to describe Greek Orthodox wood paintings. Michael Jackson was anything but Orthodox. He was instead an insatiable everchild in a nation that increasingly reveres children as beyond-reproach citizens, hailing their…

I love you… This is a recording. I’m overwhelmed by a private anthropology, or maybe closet sociology. I can’t see the forest for the trees. The sky rains cats and dogs. People demand that I tell them why I don’t have a mobile phone. Reverse snobbery? It’s the size of…

Missing minutes… An injured cat is camped under the entertainment section of a Rome newspaper. It sits like a lump under a wet tepee. When the paper shifts it’s really the cat scuttling underneath its unintentional hat. Cars fly by. The hurt cat won’t come out. I am not an…