It’s inevitable that we’ll soon see movie treatments of the Boston Bombings.  The story is right out of Hollywood and practically writes itself.  For the aspiring writers of Open Salon, why not get cracking on th… Read full post »

In Part 1 I’d been given a degrading assignment that I was on the verge of botching.  My editor had asked for a scandal piece on an Earl shacked up in the Paris Ritz with two underage twins.  Problem was I sort of knew the guy, we frequented the/… Read full post »

Forward:  My friend and former and sometimes current colleague Tabitha Lloyd was on to the Tiger Woods-Lindsay Vonn romance three years ago, as blogged about here at the time.  Since they made it public she’s been on the case again.

     &nb… Read full post »

Forward:  A few years ago there was an Open Call about losing your job.  I got this partly done before a downward slide intervened.  Then a few days ago I heard from Tabitha whose three year-old unborn scoop about Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn had finally debuted.  This prompted me/… Read full post »

         Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn.  I didn’t have to be the Amazing Kreskin (hmm, wonder if that’s still relevant) to know she’d call.  She’d been on to it three years ago.

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I seldom post, and comment even less.  So I expect few responses. 

But if you stumble upon this, you may know someon in my predicament, though they mightn't admit to it.

Like Kansas City in baseball, it's August in my life,  There's no playoffs beckoning.   Nothing… Read full post »

The mug shot below:

reminded me of

a picture from In The Court of the Crimson King, whose opening track is:

21st Century Schizoid Man

Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Po… Read full post »

A close family member died

So did my dog

Something bad happened to me when I was young

Relationships are hard to manage, especially when others are so difficult

My parents didn't treat me like I should have been treated

Mom and Dad split up

My kid has adolescent anxieties

My ex… Read full post »

          Starting a death cult.  Not the easiest of tasks but as Andy H points out, many benefits accrue.

           The best way of course would involve convincing folks that something better than li… Read full post »

          As yesterday morning’s breakfast bell sounded, my father, first sipping his wine, said “one day, if you’re game, by hook or by crook you’ll learn about sex”.

         &nbs… Read full post »

          The phone rang.

          “Dandy!”

           “Yo” 

          “Tabitha here&… Read full post »

        For the past year or so, I’ve been collecting my thoughts for a treatise of the sad state of the news today.  I have something to say, if I could just get it down on paper.  Paper, hah!  Old habits die hard.  You see, for many… Read full post »