Intention and want are undervalued, yet powerful, acts of
character that define people in their place. Both actor and audience must have clear wants and intentions to perform and follow — or the dramatic tension will collapse.
Intention and Want
Tag Archives: yearning
Ten Forty-Seven
Cogent crimes of the mind become deceptions of the heart.
Ten Twenty
Evelyn turned twenty, missed her teens, and the subtracting began.
Saluting the Muslim American Solider
Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and he made an eloquent defense for Barack Obama as president while resoundingly defeating the cruel, and unfounded, attacks by the radical right wing that Obama is as Muslim when he is not; but, Powell argued, what if Obama were a Muslim? What difference would it make? What difference should it make? Then General Powell mentioned an arresting image he saw in the New Yorker showing Elsheba Khan resting her head on the grave of her dead Muslim American son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell told us Special Khan fought for America and his sacrifice was no less than that of any Christian.
The Peril of a Mechanical Pencil
The modern world made a sea change when the wood pencil was replaced by a mechanical one — and what was lost in that industrial design exchange was our tether to the land, a sense of impermanence, and a shared yearning for renewable resources.
Chasing a Receding Horizon
It is human nature to press ahead and chase what we can never catch. For all of human existence we have been obsessed with the horizon and what riches and wonders wait for us just beyond the ken of its bend.
Spitzer’s Hooker Scandal: The Governor’s Girl Revealed
We now have a face for “Kristin” — Ashley Youmans (aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré), a 22-year-old, fresh-faced, New Jersey nymph — to go with our Spitzer Hooker Scandal.
A Meme of Belonging: The Twenty-Five Percenters
With the Governor of New York spending $80,000 on hookers — should we be surprised to learn 25% of teenage American girls are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis? If you’re a Black female teenager, your infection rate is 50%.
Client 9: The Empire State Governor John
Eliot Spitzer — Client Nine — is now forever known as “The Empire State Governor John” — after getting caught up in an FBI/IRS sex ring sting where it was discovered he appeared to be cheating on the wishes of his wife while smashing the dreams of his three daughters and vetoing voter faith by simply seeking sexual release with a call girl.
Victoria’s Secret: Sexy or Slutty?
I Hate a Parade
The New York Football Giants are having a ticker-tape parade today to celebrate their Super Bowl XLII win. I hate a parade. Always have. Ever will.
The Power of Three as a Cultural Phenomenon
Barack Obama Wins the White Folk
Barack Obama won Iowa last night — one of the “Whitest” states in the union — with a resounding and undeniable smashing of Hillary Clinton’s “inevitable” campaign for the presidency of the United States.
Britney Spears Impregnates Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears — the most unfortunate example of the stereotypical, rural, White-Trash-Baby-Mama — has gone and done did the “Oops!” unthinkable again: She got her sister pregnant.
