Author: Alex Irvine
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A Supernatural Viewing Party, with Prizes!
If you’re a Supernatural fan, check this out…I’ll be giving away some books and there are other excellent prizes as well. May 20 is the date!
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Capital Punishment and Organ Donation
A friend, John Lovell, sent me this link the other day to a NYT op-ed by a death-row inmate who wants to donate his organs after he is executed. Take a second to read it, then come back. … Don’t know about you, but my first reaction was a very deep unease at the direct-but-dismissive…
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Notable Persons of Ypsilanti: My Brightest Diamond
In my ongoing effort to point out to the world all the ways that Ypsilanti is cool, I give you this recent video from My Brightest Diamond, whose Shara Worden is a YHS grad. http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=I2bWswMjqfIJ2gySKdfO1VJx64E3jZ1x%2C1yZWIwMjoY2mowI9KU5KINDznBCxB3Pl&embedCode=I2bWswMjqfIJ2gySKdfO1VJx64E3jZ1x If the video isn’t embedded here due to some weirdness with Pitchfork’s code, you can click on either of the…
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Moe Berg Is 109, and Still Can’t Hit
Or would have been, anyway, if he hadn’t died 39 years ago. On the occasion of what would have been his 109th birthday, I talked with Ron Kaplan of the New Jersey Jewish News about Berg and my short story “Agent Provocateur,” in which Berg plays a more decisive role than he usually played on…
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A Not-Serious Proposition on Charlie Sheen
Inspired by Walter Kirn. Charlie Sheen is the most interesting crazy guy pretending to be crazy in a way other than the way in which he’s actually crazy since Hamlet. And, since Joyce informed us that modernity remade Everyman in Hamlet’s image, Charlie Sheen is Everyman. Which in turn means that we’re all doomed, without…
Crooked House Fictions 