LJ Ross

A Dinosaur Crawled Into My Backyard (Attempts at Connecting with Nature)

May 15, 2009 5 min read turtle

A dinosaur crawled into my backyard last week. This reminded me that I live in a city where you don’t regularly see dinosaurs. Or even backyards. You see pavement. And now, apparently,

The Ugly Path to Adulthood

Apr 17, 2009 6 min read Music & Performing Arts Broadway Marin Ireland Neil LaBute Piper Perabo reasons to be pretty Steven Pasquale Terry Kinney The Shape of Things Thomas Sadoski

Playwright Neil LaBute has always been a master of malice. His plays, filled with the grand intricacies of name-calling and the subtlety of allusive pricks to the heart, are studies on the subterraneous

When Avant-Garde Becomes Accessible: Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion

Mar 20, 2009 3 min read Music & Performing Arts

Experimental art is usually more deadly than effective. But there is always that rare gem that is wildly in touch with the underpinnings of aestheticism, like a secret passageway down untrod paths of

Bell of the Ball: An NFL Commentary

Feb 20, 2009 5 min read Sports tatum bell

The NFL has become a hotbed of athletic theatre. Football is America’s most popular sport because it is highly entertaining, amazingly athletic, and elaborately strategic. Bordering on cinematic in its production, the

Notes From a Budget Truck

Jan 23, 2009 7 min read New York City stuff

My wife and I are moving from Los Angeles to New York, it’s the middle of January, and I never thought I’d find myself so obsessed with the contents of a

A Dinosaur Crawled Into My Backyard <br />(Attempts at Connecting with Nature)

The Ugly Path to Adulthood

When Avant-Garde Becomes Accessible: <br />Animal Collective’s <em>Merriweather Post Pavilion</em>

Bell of the Ball: <br />An NFL Commentary

Notes From a Budget Truck