“So, how’s your baby doing?” It was a couple months after my daughter, Eilidh, had been born, and I was having lunch with a friend. Inevitably, this question came up, and I found myself as unable to answer it as always. “Well, you know, she’s fine. She does the usual […]
Author: James Smoker
The super-needy culture club
I was raised in an alternative culture. It’s not separate from the American mainstream — it’s deeply influenced by American media, even subordinate to it — but this culture still strives to be distinct. It has its own set of celebrities, its own bizarre jokes, its own “greatest hits rock” […]
