The last motion picture theater of my youth is gone. For several years, The Avalon, sitting on Kingshighway, across the street from a mortuary that has now become a church, has been shuttered and slowly decaying and finally has met … Continue reading
Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark. I’ve seen him on other occasions and he is articulate and, from what I’ve seen, fearless, a rare combination today in politics. In this excerpt he’s talking about gay marriage. No, that’s not … Continue reading
This a collection of excerpts from interviews with a wide range of writers, some science fiction, some fantasists, several so-called “mainstream,” on their belief—actually disbelief—in a deity. I think the most difficult thing for many people to grasp is the … Continue reading
Recently I’ve received a spate of those nasty politically-naive, rather insipid yet clever emails that go round and round, forwarded from one to another to hundreds, spouting off about the woes of the country, the supposed sins of the Left, … Continue reading
I wonder sometimes how a modern conservative maintains. Romney has won the New Hampshire primary. All the buzz now is how he’s going to have a much tougher fight in South Carolina, primarily because of the religious and social conservatives … Continue reading
Just because I really like Keith Emerson.
I am probably never going to read all the books I own. The last few years I’ve been dealing more and more with that realization. I have thousands, maybe several thousand, and the ones in the house are certainly not … Continue reading
I’ve always wondered about people in Iowa. Only a little less than those in Idaho, specifically the northern part. Why, I wonder, should this state be our early warning system, our barometer of coming political shitstorms? Just as a historical … Continue reading
This took a bit of patience. For a comparison, here’s a thumbnail of the original: Basically, this just took a lot of patience to get rid of the phone lines and such. I shot the original from my backyard and … Continue reading
So we survived the night. The mad hordes banging on the steel shutters disturbed our sleep not at all. This morning we looked out at the devastation and counted ourselves among the fortunate survivors, nevertheless aware that this year—this year—is … Continue reading