Charles Alexander
Art at Affirmations: Eleinko goes X-Rated! (Well, sorta)
Gary Eleinko's Works on Paper exhibit runs through October 1st. For information, contact: Maureen Jones at 248-398-7105. Or, art curator Charles Alexander ([email protected]) For a night with five important local art openings happening at [...]
Parting Glances: Journal of an Ex-Leftie
"For six months now I've been using only my right hand. (See the block lettering of this journal. Some parts illegible. My p's look like q's. My i's blend into my u's. Scribbles. Got to get a laptop.) "I'm supposedly left handed. Or, so I've [...]
Parting Glances: Too late, Mary! (er, Larry)
It's probably no consolation to Sen. Larry Craig, but he's not the first political power broker to be caught playing happy tap in a men's loo. Back in the 60s, Walter Jenkins, presidential aide to President Johnson, got similar comeuppance in a [...]
Parting Glances: Sister's carpool from Hell
Dear Father Manly Everhope: I'm reluctant to send you this e-mail because I know you're very busy conducting your commendable bar, beach, brunch, and bathhouse ministry, reaching out thoughtfully to others as "one of the boys". (When I last heard [...]
Ten at one fell swoop!
Parting Glances Seagulls came inland to Michigan and Ontario shores to stay — for their better, our worse — once freighters stopped dumping garbage into Lake St. Clair decades ago. These clannish birds gather in clusters near the International [...]
Parting Glances: The cause, three alarm . . .
The occasion, too good to resist. Media at the ready. TV channel cameras nearby. Reporters handy. Well, why not? Ready for my close up . . . Sunset Boulevard redux . . . 15 Minutes of Fame Dep't. "There, on the sixth floor!" I point out to a [...]
Parting Glances: Your wet nose or mine?
Parting Glances The Grim Reaper in the guise of a mild-mannered tabby named Oscar is making news lately. A visit by him to the bedside of hospice patients is a sure sign the patient has only four hours to live. So far Oscar's feline prognosis has [...]
Parting Glances A three-way overheard
SR. SERENA SCATTERPIN: Yes, I just got the cellphone pixs from Sunshine Partners Saugatuck confab. May I make a suggestion? Don't you think it's time you got a tummy tuck? And: a few cucumber isometrics wouldn't hurt your retrograde alignment [...]
Parting Glances: Time shifts ten-speed
I'm biking up Third Avenue to Jefferson, down Jefferson to Belle Isle, around Belle Isle, and back. Easy 10 miles. Not bad for a well-seasoned geezer (or, more aptly gay: in Yiddish: an alte kokker). Making the island loop I pass dozens of Canada [...]
Parting Glances: When it rains, Sister pours
I don't know how in hades she does it; but just at the exact, psychological, aerodynamically precise moment that an airplane with a banner reading, "Jesus Christ: hope for homeosexuals" is circulating above Motor City Pride 2007 Sr. Serena [...]
Parting Glances: Where there's smoke . . .
For years the Germans have been technological innovators in camera development; the Japanese and Americans, close competitors. In the mid-1930s German video buffs used color film as well as black and white. One of my frequently watched DVDs has [...]
Parting Glances: When the roll's called up yonder . . .
I'll take a rain check if Jerry Falwell's yondering in the bleachers. Even so, in the spirit of faith-based-initiative skepticism, I'll share an email I got following Jerry's untimely, or timely passing, depending upon your point of view. I quote [...]