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At Rest
I wrote the original in 2002, and it was published in Goldsmith University Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Street...
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jeffmcm
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
Eating the Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/nyregion/pizza-delivery-ice-deportation.html?emc=edit_th_180607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=112668000607...
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jeffmcm
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min
My drawing of Westside Piers NYC 1980's in talk at MOMA
My drawing of NYC Westside piers circa 1981 included in a talk done at MOMA March 22, 2018 by Travis Chamberlain, as part of Club 57...
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jeffmcm
- Oct 30, 2017
- 1 min
An explanation of the Trump effect
"Men believe in the truth of all that is seen to be strongly believed. In all great deceivers, a remarkable process is at work to which...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 1, 2017
- 1 min
My obituary for my friend and colleague, director Steven Kent
https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/07/21/director-educator-activist-steven-kent-1943-2017/
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jeffmcm
- Jul 20, 2017
- 8 min
Not Afraid: Upon hearing of Edward Albee’s death at 88
September 2016 (published in Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages 27.2 July 2017) In my high school theatre classes, we enjoyed riffing...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 15, 2017
- 2 min
Illusory Intersections
How do we stop the rolling disaster of the Republican takeover? If we want to indulge in Marxist fantasies about letting the entire...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
Inaugural Protests
Friends and colleagues are considering converging on Washington, D.C. to protest the Trumping of America, with corollary protests across...
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jeffmcm
- Dec 28, 2016
- 9 min
The End of the Year End is Near
What others see as a “revolution” I see as a wrecking ball (both meanings) swinging in and around my home where I huddle with friends and...
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jeffmcm
- Feb 27, 2016
- 5 min
The Candidates Go Car Shopping
The presidential candidates go car shopping: Ted Cruz: The failed policies of the past have led us to this lot. Look at all these...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 19, 2016
- 1 min
Cartels and Us
Read Joan Grillo’s “Mexico’s New Blood Politics” (New York Times Sunday Review 1/17/16) and substitute the drug cartels of Mexico with...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 18, 2016
- 3 min
The Democrat Debate January 17, 2016
1/17/16 What I heard and felt from the Demo debate tonight: Flashback to my youth, when debates were less about grandstanding and more...
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jeffmcm
- Nov 6, 2015
- 15 min
A COUPLE OF SEASONS AT THE CENTURY’S END
I wrote this towards the end of the 1990's, a long time ago. Never been published, and it seems to me, as this summer comes gasping to an...
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jeffmcm
- Apr 18, 2015
- 7 min
Officer Down
Someday, someone wearing a police uniform will put you in fear for your life. Yet it is assumed this will not happen to those Americans...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 24, 2015
- 2 min
The National Gallery
1/19/15 Martin Luther King Day, Phoenix, Arizona It’s perhaps perverse, or entirely appropriate, to spend three hours on the afternoon of...
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jeffmcm
- Dec 18, 2014
- 5 min
Darkness Divisible: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and too many others
Leave a reply December 2014 Phoenix, Arizona I awake these mornings to thoughts of what I have been taught to describe as blackness,...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 6, 2014
- 4 min
THE NATIONAL 9/11 MEMORIAL IN NEW YORK CITY
Summer 2014 When one lives in a city surrounded by water, this essential element often flows unnoticed until announcing itself by either...
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