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Man is a social animal. It is therefore permitted, even if we don’t know each other, to disturb my simple errand with your conversation. I do not believe it too much to ask that if you do this, you first ensure that your overture is charming, informative...

Originally published on Facebook on 18 March 2018. Story idea, one I do not have the patience to write (and which would be pointless to write, anyway, for reasons described down below): Some magical handwaving splits the world into two alternate versions...

There are a couple of things you can do, as a struggling writer of any level of talent from dire to genius, that will mark you among your colleagues as an asshole. There are actually way more than a couple, but these are the two I am thinking about today...

Last night’s film noir on Netflix Disk: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953), written and directed by Sam Fuller, starring Richard Widmark, Thelma Ritter, and Jean Peters. And for some time you can be forgiven for thinking you’re watching something first-rate...

Just as horror stories tend to be better when they illustrate some fundamental truth of human nature, just as the same is true of comedies and thrillers, the same is true of this true story from my past, involving one of the greatest farts in all of...