Category: Commentary

  • I Have Nothing To Write Today But There’s Always Something

    If you want to see a “performance” by an actor right up there with Daniel Day-Lewis in TWBB, rent “M” by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre. Watch the last ten minutes of screen time in which he breaks down portraying a pedophile. He was a student of Freud’s for awhile, Mr. Lowenstein.…

  • Palindrome (Ex: Sarah Palin)

    No matter how you look at Ms. Beehive she reads the same backward or forward. What is it in this culture that spews out such cartoon figures? And why is it that we take these caricatures to heart, pumping formaldehyde into their veins, standing them up and having them run…

  • The Writer’s Gnaw — The Elusive Vole

    I had a lovely essay completed and somehow it was lost. I used to get bent out of shape about that but I know that an asteroid is hurtling through space at our planet and with that as comfort I will redo the essay. I have a potpourri of things…

  • Working On The Optimist’s Rag and Other Extraneous Matters

    You may have noticed some gibberish when you came on site. All I know is that it is WordPress database error or that is what it says,. My son is on it. I haven’t the slightest clue as to what that means. When I go into the greasy compacted mossy…