On Broken Heels (x 2)
Sean MurphyI was going to comment on Trump’s comments yesterday about the Medal of Honor as...
On This Day, 1979
Summer 1979: I was too young and too dumb to understand that the intense backlash...
Shelley Duvall, Sui Generis
It’s going to be all The Shining all the time, but the lead sentence of...
Original Poem: Gen X Exegesis
Where are my #GenX at? This one’s for you. It’s also for those older and...
HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME: CELTICS/LAKERS ’84 at 40
Forty years ago. Officially a classic. But, of course, it was a classic even as...
Rebel’s Rebel: Anthony Bourdain, Six Years Gone
Here’s what I wrote, the moment I read –with the same shock and sadness most...
Born in the U.S.A. at 40: The Boss Before, During, After
i. Before Deliver Me From Nowhere Perhaps because of what followed—the next album, the acclaim—Springsteen’s...
In the Garden of Eden: Doug Ingle, RIP
RIP to Doug Ingle, singer and organist on Iron Butterfly’s epic (or insufferable — and...
I’ve Got Questions for Sean Murphy
I’m a big fan of Cliff Garstang, the author and person: in addition to being...
From Writer’s Digest: Primer for Helping—and Tolerating—Your Annoying Artsy Friend
Having been an avid reader, and subscriber, to Writer’s Digest for several decades (going back...