Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Tag Archives: memoir
An Excerpt from “Gun Needle Spoon”
A taste of the new memoir, dropping on Tuesday, from the only Weeklings contributor who has ever robbed a bank. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged bank robbers, drugs, Dzanc Books, memoir, Patrick O'Neal, recovery
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Formerly Edna’s: My House in the Country
When Teresa Giordano bought a country house in the Catskills, she got a lot more than she bargained for. On the everpresent connection between one home and its past, especially on windy nights. Continue reading
The Dusty Tail, or We Were In Boise
When Timothy Braun’s beloved travel companion Dusty had a bump on his tail, the news was shattering. A story of the hand-drawn stars aligning on the walls of a plastic Elizabethan collar. Continue reading
Blood on the Hallowed Ground
Ian F. Blair plays a game of basketball with his brother as he recounts the memory of his father’s death in an evocative, pulsing essay about cancer, family, and race. Continue reading
In Defense of Disco
At its height, the “Disco Sucks” movement drew fifty-nine thousand people to a Chicago stadium to watch a shock jock explode LPs, inciting a full-on riot of mostly white dudes. WTF? Our Robert Burke Warren, who became enamored of disco in the lusty confines of a Catholic school broom closet, writes about the music that arrived at the same time as his teens, and how it inspired him. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, Sex, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlanta, Bee Gees, catholic school, catholicism, Disco, disco demolition night, disco sucks, homophobia, Madonna, memoir, queer, racism, robert burke warren, saturday night fever, travolta
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Don’t Blame Yourself
“I feel like I’m underwater. Like I’m asleep. I want to be asleep, even as my mouth forms half sentences that my heart rejects.” Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Children, family drama, Janine Canty, john ford coley, memoir, the pointer sisters
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Shawn is my Shepherd
Guide dog trainer Steve Neumann discusses his connection with his dog Shawn, and the surprisingly human nature of German Shepherds. Continue reading
