It has bothered me for a long time that big talk is not the opposite of small talk. Big talk... for whatever reason, has come to mean boastfulness, charlantry, and the invitation to folly, rather than the discussion of big and uncomfortable ideas. Big Talk is Big-Thinking. This is a

New York is full of faces. Some are human. Some are made by humans. Some don't have much to do with us at all. But we've evolved to send and receive subtle information with our faces, using the so-called "mimetic muscles". Spend a few

Last night I was out with my boy D. doing some recon in the East Village when we walked past a Thai Dumpling spot on the western end of St. Mark's. We were like 5 paces past it, when I decided I had to go back and look

"There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it." Cannibal Tours is a 1988 documentary film about European and American tourists in Papua New Guinea, directed by filmmaker and expert wanderer Dennis O'Rourke. It's top commentary

Just a 2 min speech from the old wizard Gregory Bateson.

I’m helping to organize this music and justice festival on the 14th called Communities Together. It’s ostensibly about protecting beautiful, generationally-interwoven Manhattan from the paws of greedy philistine developers who want to rip out the culture and clutter and people who make the blocks just south of Penn