Tag: John Burdick Village Voices

On the occasions he could be convinced or coerced to drive to New York City at all, my father hugged ...

You ride it out. It will be over soon, and even you are not entirely above the gratifications of revenge, ...

Instead of visualizing bad energies flowing out of me, I imagine inflamed things settling, overfiring hydrants and spigots lowering output ...

Imperfection is cool, but the celebration of imperfection can lead to the misguided pursuit of its earmarks, the codification of ...

Golf, in the abstract, is hitting a petrified sheep turd with a cow’s leg into a gopher hole, and then ...

Sleep is not still. It is not passive. It is engagement. It demands composure, energy, and form. It has angles ...

Therapists collect the tears of men like AAA emeralds or a Jace the Mind Sculptor Magic: The Gathering card.  They ...

Of all the outrages that century’s art throws at us, why does it seem the most offensive one is Cage’s ...

In the secular world, corporations monitor the street, looking for Next Big Things and meal tickets. Christian pop, on the ...

The question about digital media versus physical media isn’t really about the storage of the music. In both cases, recorded ...

This thing I do every day starting this time of year, shooting baskets in the driveway as a whole-body aerobic ...

Down in Tyler, Texas, football star Taylor Hoculi lay in critical condition from gunshots issued by a teenage loner named ...

It’s a perfect storm of factors: idle hands, devil’s garden; food scarcity with apocalyptic overtones, distrust of supply chain and ...

It is hard to convince anyone younger than 40, and maybe 50,  how resonant and universally attended boxing was through ...

The powerful revelation of the observer effect, which demonstrates that the observer can't help but change the thing observed, resonates in ...

When he picked up a new instrument, any instrument, he didn’t necessarily hold, blow, attack, or stroke it in the ...

I think we all experience personal taste as a mysterious function of our essence. Why we like what we like ...

On the New Paltz Facebook group today, the waters are uncharacteristically calm, and the good work of community seems to ...

You can’t get more SUNY than me. Came to New Paltz in my mother’s belly when my father accepted an ...

It is 45 degrees out and windy, but through the bay window this Saturday presents as a nearly perfect specimen ...