Category: Books

  • TROGLODYTES SAY I TETRALOGY COVER IS A HATE CRIME

    Randy Ford runs a cultural center and is a playwright out of Tucson. I gave a reading at El Ojito ( www.elojitosprings.com) of The i Tetralogy and Randy put a copy up for sale which was kind of him. And I thought that was the end of it. Apparently not. I urge…

  • Trains=Holocaust And Other Observations, Railfans

    This blog will twist and turn because I have too much mentation floating about with regard to trains.  Several commentators have observed that the Holocaust is synonymous with the scheduling of trains during the Nazi era. Cattle cars shuffling along track for hundreds of miles and depositing Jews into death…

  • Orson Welles in Heaven

    This is a short story in progress. I am offering it here for you to comment or to dismiss, whatever the flavor of the day is. Orson Welles is dead, and Steven Spielberg did him in. Always trying to finance another film, Welles is invited by Spielberg to dinner. Spielberg…

  • Cameras as Remembrances of Things Past : “O insupportable and touching loss!” — Shak.

    It was a Kodak Bantam camera with a lens that folded out on a rail, very charming and dainty, with little metal knobs to set the f-stops and one to set the shutter. You could put it into the palm of your hand like some inlaid treasure of inestimable value. Because it…