Gray's Dead; That's Not Right
Well, they finally found Spalding Gray's body, two months after he disappeared from his Manhattan apartment, leaving behind a wife and kids. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how a such a brilliant guy with so much success, a family and the whole dream, could want to kill himself. Other times it's way too easy to imagine ... the way a mind can turn on itself ... and make what's not real truer than what is.

I'll never forget the first time, how back in college, Jim rented Swimming to Cambodia and a bunch of us got together to watch it. I was blown away. Then Monster in a Box. That was my favorite. (What writer doesn't have a monster or two in a box?) There was gray kitten in those days that got named Spalding, right, because it was in a box ... or was it because it was a monster with a bigger head than all its litter mates? Someone will remember.