I decided to cut-and-paste this piece rather than publish a link, because YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE IT if you are a serious writer, especia...

Oh yes. Oh, yes, Captain Kirk, and his noble soliloquy in perhaps my fave original Star Trek episode,   Miri.   The one with all th...

Keep warm.

I was completely gobsmacked - though perhaps I shouldn't have been - when I found this tidbit on the Turner Classics site. Along w...

Just kind of a blah day, Christmas coming at me like a freight train (though the actual day is usually quite wonderful - so wh...

At dawn my lover comes to me and tells me of her dreams With no attempt to shovel the glimpse into the ditch of what each one means. ...

After re-reading yesterday's cricket rant (and it truly was a rant, but wasn't it fun? For me, maybe), I felt I needed something...

Y'know, it strikes me, when it strikes me at all, that Dorothy Parker was right when she wrote,  "this living, this living, t...