Sheathing the Scissorhands

In 1990, director Tim Burton released Edward Scissorhands, a fantasy film he co-wrote with Caroline  Thompson, adapted from a story he’d penned based on his own lonely and disconnected childhood. Filmed with Burton’s marvelously whimsical touch, the...

My Post-Traumatic Chicken Disorder- March 20, 2021

One day this past January, chuffed about having received my first Moderna vaccine the previous morning, and undoubtedly a little woozier than I realized, I had a shocking encounter with a flock of chickens. (Cue Jaws/Land Shark theme music from Saturday Night Live,...