The last UFO event I attended was the 2017 Ozark Mountain UFO Conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Well-fed caucasian seniors were there in abundance, as they usually are, and most of them were men, as per usual also. With few exceptions, the usual presenters said the usual things, and during breaks, attendees browsed the usual […]
Cinema Paradiso When oh when is Greenville going to give itself an independent movie theater? Yesterday, I drove all the way to Asheville to watch the Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at The Fine Arts, not because it isn’t playing here, which it surprisingly still is, but because I wanted some assurance […]
“Does the tree let go of the leaf, or does the leaf let go of the tree?” He’s evading me now. With metaphors. Apparently I’ve struck a nerve. “The tree lets go of the leaf,” I hazard, “because the leaf is dead.” And what I remember of seventh grade biology you could fit on the […]
