barrington99@gmail.com A few weeks ago, I was delighted to receive an email from Colorado Review inviting me to be on their podcast. They would read one of my short stories from their archives, “Superman Falling,” and then interview about the process of writing the story. The podcast came out this week, here. (Or maybe I can direct to … Read more
In which a Persian man asks his sister if he can bring his black girlfriend to her big wedding…
We are beginning the third day of crowdfunding for our film, THOSE PEOPLE: A Love Story.* I started this post on DAY 1, but Day 1 had some Obama-care-rollout-fiasco elements to it that made DAY 2 about catching up. So now it’s DAY 3… If you have any artists, inventors, or makers in your world, you … Read more
So, I did a little radio interview this week for a show called Let’s Get Reel on KPC Radio — which is the station run by Pierce College. “Reel” is like “film reel”– clever, right? We get to do that for a few more years I guess, until film reels are no more… It was … Read more
This Is Us Research… I have always loved to watch TV, and read books. Yet both of these activities tend to be tinged with guilt. Probably because, for most of my childhood, whenever I was doing these things, I was avoiding other things I was supposed to be doing, practicing piano, doing my homework, sleeping. As time … Read more
The other night we ate at a restaurant that has a tropical fish tank. I had a good view of the fish over the shoulders of my dining companions, and I noticed that one of the fish had a small, rectangular protrusion from it’s “belly” region. For a moment I wasn’t sure. “Is that a … Read more
Iain Campbell was one of my instructors when I attended Centralian College in Alice Springs, Australia in the early 2000’s. He taught me art history, theory, and painting. On Saturdays, when I visited the “art shed” for life drawing, he was sometimes there. He was from Scotland, but he settled in Alice Springs, and I … Read more
In our oddly laid out apartment, we have a little square area of hallway, which is a conduit to two bedrooms, office and bathroom It also houses some built-in cabinets and drawers, which we use for linens and such. A few weeks ago, there started to be a peculiar smell. Not a full smell, but like … Read more
Eight years ago, after the election of President Obama, Paul and his friend S were celebrating that fact that only did he seem like a good choice for the job, he was also a person of color. “He just has to not f*ck it up,” they said – or something similar. And they decided, that … Read more
