On The Later (Little Known) Years Of Jack Kerouac

  J.   Some impulse compelled me to begin reading Big Sur by Jack Kerouac— probably because I instinctively felt it would be in line with what I’m writing at the moment. I don’t have

On the Killing Spree of Elliot Rodger

                                    illustration: Yuri Tchary   J.   Just read the 100-something page autobiography Elliot Rodger wrote in the year

Environmental sustainability, plastic bags, ignorance, fear and loathing

  J.   What can be said? Zillions of people talk about environmental sustainability, and then do little about it, partly out of ignorance, partly out willful ignorance, partly out of laziness. The planet’s seriously

Leonard Cohen ‘vs’ Bob Dylan

  J.   I have been thinking about this, and I think that Leonard Cohen is bequeathing a deeper oeuvre to the world than Bob Dylan.   Bob Dylan is more popular, and may forever be, but Leonard Cohen’s oeuvre is