Happy Hour At The Academic Lounge By James Cummins “Men don’t like men. Maybe it’s something we got taught, or ate, but if you like women, you don’t like men.” “Or maybe you don’t like women, either?” “But would that mean you like men secretly, or unconsciously, or both?” “Maybe it means you like women […]
Poetry by James Cummins I Am Critick I am Critick, hear me roar, in dudgeon too high to ignore, and I know too much to go back to East Bend. Oh, I’ve slept with Tweedledee, now I’ve got my Ph.D— no one’s ever making me go down again! O-oh, yes, I am wise— see the […]
HICK AND WILLIE DISCUSS COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS AND DINNER GUESTS By James Cummins Hick: “Look at this new book of cow paintings. Full of bucolics, no? It’s a genre I like to call ‘coffee-tablers’— when you have guests, these things work like enablers do, trying to get you to accept their alcoholics.” Willie: “Oh, thrilling. […]
HICK AND WILLIE AND THE ART REVIEW By James Cummins Hick: “Oh, the parks minister to lovers in the spring! Rhythms of love turn out to be symphonic, that started out merely platonic … Any keepers on your Match.com list, Wild Thing?” Willie: “You’re saying ‘the demesnes fructify the friends’? Don’t kid a kidder. Love […]
Hick and Willie Discuss Their New PBS Show, ‘Art Talk & Chinese Cooking’ by James Cummins Hick: “You know that ‘Art Talk’ show you pitched to PBS? Are you sure? We’re critics. Can we tell people how to fix their art? We drink the milk—we’re not the cow. They’ll start us a new network: Wannabe […]
Hick and Willie Judge a ‘Video’ Contest by James Cummins Hick: Whaddya got for the video contest? I hope a rave. Just watched a piece about the David on Sister Wendy’s show. Didn’t her dad start the hamburger chain, ‘Wendy’s’? Or was that another Dave? Willie: I got sucker-punched by ‘The […]
Hick And Willie At The Art Institute ~ James Cummins Hick: “Seeing paintings by Beckman and Matisse, one understands the S/M dance of Germany and France a little better, ‘eef yoo pleece.’ ” Willie: “All the kids seem to love Monet— and if someone insists on trumpeting him, well, I say, heck, let […]
