Doomsday

Most cultures possess some form of death tradition. By death tradition, I include all deathbed rituals, after death ceremonies, beliefs, and traditional practices. A prominent example is the Last Rites of the Catholics, a deathbed ritual in which the dying is absolved if hers sins, clearing their path to Heaven. Another is the ancient Egyptian […]

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics. -Louis In Tony Kushner’s America, there are no angels.   The America he presents […]

Pain is inevitable and redemption is uncertain.  Our feet shall kick upon a floor of marbles like Chaplin in a death-act until the very end. Sleep, a janitor at a camp I once worked at told me, is 1/60th of death.  In PTA’s film, There Will be Blood, Daniel Plainview is woken from his slumber […]