Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “Essays”

Edward Said Dead At 67 [2003]

A mighty and a passionate heart has ceased to beat. Edward Said died in hospital in New York City Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 6.30 pm, felled at last by complications arising from the leukemia…

What’s In A Word: Weird?

Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and Kamala Harris’s running mate, gave new meaning to an old word when he called Trump and Co, “weird.” Leave it to a high school teacher and a football…

Knock Knock Knockin’ On Dylan’s Door

It all started so innocently, a simple ad in some online publication whose name I don’t even remember. Bob Dylan coming to California, it read. Really? THE Bob Dylan? The one whose songs we used…

The KUKI Sale Revisited

Anyone over the age of too old probably remembers the daily “KUKI Sale” that ran mornings on radio AM 1400. It was pronounced “Cookie” sale and was hosted by a variety of DJs, also known…

Surgical Strikes: Eight Decades Worth

The patients in Dr. Wenwu Jin's fifth-floor office on Clay Street in San Francisco's Chinatown are almost all elderly Chinese men and women. I'm one of the few exceptions: a white guy who doesn't speak…

Bank Book

The first edition of Christina Stead's 795-page novel, ‘House of All Nations,’ published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1938, did not sell out. It was reissued in ’66, in anticipation of a Christina Stead…

-