Q & A*
Sean MurphyQuestion: What would you do differently? Answer: Nothing. True answer: Everything. Truest answer: I don’t...
Ars Moriendi, Part Three: Ordinary Angels*
Parts One and Two considered the “before” and “during” of end-of-life care (and once again, Bill Keller’s piece...
Ars Moriendi, Part Two: Hippocrates and Hypocrites*
Part One considered the “before” of end-of-life care (and once again, Bill Keller’s piece is...
Ars Moriendi, Part One: The Conversation*
Writing in the New York Times on October 7, Bill Keller’s touching essay “How To...
1492 B.C. (Before Columbus)
Little Roy: Dead Man: The Man in Black: Old School:
Adaptation*
Remembering. Everything changes after a baby is born. This is what everyone told her. Her...
The 30th Anniversary Of A Digital Dinosaur: An Appreciation
Wow, look who turned 30 this week! Our beloved (and/or quaint, prehistoric, irrelevant) CD player...
The Wisdom of Crowds: A Celebration of Humanity via YouTube (Revisited)
Everyone knows YouTube is the best shortcut to favorite, as well as forgotten video clips....
Alligator Lizards in the Air: In Search of the Sublimely Awful Lyric (Revisited)
I can think of a lot of rock bands who have written some laughably awful...
They Will Rock You, They Are The Champions: The Consummate American Bands (Revisited)
October ’08. In the spirit of two quintessentially American inventions (obsessions, really), baseball and rock...