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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Let Django Stay Unchained (Updated Below)
I’m not here to bury Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” but to defend it. But let me rush first to the confessional and announce at once that I have no intention of seeing the film. My refusal to see it has … Continue reading
Posted in Everything Else
Tagged controversy, Django Unchained, n-word, rant, slavery
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A New Beginning: Sin Against the Race
An inspiring conversation led me to rethink the beginning of Sin Against the Race. Long time readers of the gar spot might recognize some of the material from what had been Chapter 3. Beginnings, beginnings, the bane of every storyteller in every … Continue reading
Posted in Excerpts, Sin Against the Race
Tagged black, fiction, gay, SATR, Sin Against the Race
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Newton’s Nutcracker
Their bodies glided across a stage ankle deep in white mist and glittered with streams of tiny lights draped from above. “Newton, isn’t hear dress lovely?” his mother said. “Yes, it is,” he answered. However, Newton wasn’t looking at the … Continue reading
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Tagged ballet, black, Christmas, fiction, gay, growing up gay, Nutcracker
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Time to put the NRA on Ignore
The day began in Sandy Hook, Connecticut with the tolling of bells. While the nation paused for a moment of silence in observance of the one week anniversary of the mass shooting, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre prepared to … Continue reading
Pandit Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012
In the masthead for the gar spot you’ll see the bottom part of my tabla sitting just above the keyboard. This is the instrument I actually ended up studying, and continue to study after over a quarter century. But my first … Continue reading
Gay Law and the Scalia of Justice
When the tweets came out that the US Supreme Court would hear cases challenging 1996′s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and 2008′s Proposition 8, I paused. Most of the initial responses I saw seemed happy that the cases would have … Continue reading