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Memory
Saturday, December 18, 2010, the Senate of the United States voted twice on the Lieberman-Collins bill, once to bring cloture to the debate on the bill, and therefore to end the Republican filibuster, and once on the bill itself, at 3:00 pm. The first passed 63-33,...
Life and Death
I think, the way this blog is developing, at least for now, that I will keep a few subjects running. Two more holidays to get through before we can get back to work. Thanksgiving was fifteen or twenty of my partner’s family in a beautiful home on the coast of...
Feeling Trapped
I saw a play the other night, a new play about a family in crisis over a question of forgiveness. Can they forgive the man who murdered their daughter? This led me to consider whether a dramatist could write that kind of drama about a gay family. Say, two gay men and...
The Pictures
Since 1982 I have taken many hundreds of pictures of the sites in which these three novels have been placed--Cardiff, Maine, a fictional version of Bangor, Maine, Commercial Street and Race Point in Provincetown, and Christopher Street in the West Village in New York....
The myths we tell ourselves
I was halfway through Ceremonies, when I began to get the feeling that there weren’t many other gay books like this. Books that placed their characters at the heart of the gay predicament—we live in a homophobic culture—and then listened while they told us how that...
The un-finality of finishing something
We are working hard on the last jobs getting our website—http://www.dwightcathcart.net—up and running. We ask ourselves questions. Are there enough pictures? Do you have more pictures on your HD? What did Apple do to iPhoto 11 so that it won’t do what iPhoto 10 did...