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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Category Archives: Memoir
Prince, Todd, RuPaul, & Me
Prince and I did not get off, so to speak, on the good foot. While he would ultimately influence me ā both personally and musically ā as much as Bowie or the Beatles (my Trinity), his presence initially challenged the most important friendship of my life. Then, it cemented that friendship, and led to funk nā roll adventures alongside a superstar-in-exile named RuPaul. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Memoir, Music, Popped Culture, Sex, Soul Seduction, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged dirty mind, Prince, robert burke warren, RuPaul
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Talking Trees
What can a series of ancient trees, stripped bare before their spring flowering disguises them, tell us about themselves — and ourselves? Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Joyce Kilmer, Martha's Vineyard, MV Times, Nature, New England, Noepe Center for Literary Arts, Trees
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Dirt Cookies: The Less-Than-Sexy Side of Conflict Reporting
Conflict journalist Carmen Gentile gives an irreverent look at “war-zoney” reporting in Afghanistan. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Carmen Gentile, conflict reporting, Kandahar Province
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How I Became Pretentious
Why should you and I should be more pretentious? In his soon-to-be released book-length essay, PRETENTIOUSNESS: WHY IT MATTERS (see raves here in the Economist, the Guardian, the Spectator and even Vice), Dan Fox defends it beautifully. “Pretension is permission … Continue reading
Welcome Thieves: An Appreciation
Our own Robert Burke Warren waxes on about Sean Beaudoin’s stellar, rockin’ Welcome Thieves. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, Literature, Matters of Faint Import, Memoir, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged algonquin, robert burke warren, Sean Beaudoin, welcome thieves
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Girls Gone Old
“I chose to incorporate my physicality and sexuality into my identity as a writer. I liked the attention, but I also hoped in some ways that it would work as a leveler.” Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged aging, Bill and Ted, Bitch, bodies, Boss Hog, Liars Club, Mary Karr, writing
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The Hippie Angel
Robert Burke Warren’s Yuletide of death, porn, and a hippie angel. Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Humor, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Sex, The Arts, The Weeklings
Tagged angel, Christmas, hippie angel, hippies, partridge family, Penthouse, robert burke warren
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