I’ve been thinking a lot about Heaven’s Gate. Remember the cult? They were the people who believed that an alien spacecraft was following behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and that in…
What does the homeowner want me to believe? Beware of God, because horrible crimes and atrocities are committed in his name (not to mention a number of atrocities committed by…
This list of final meal requests from death row inmates fascinates me. Each represents the last request from a dying man. Like Gerald Mitchell: One bag of Jolly Ranchers. And…
New Rule: When you don’t know something, there is no need to announce your ignorance to the world, because it might just be something that everyone else knows, making you…
Both SOMETHING MISSING and UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO have been optioned to producers, one for film and the other for television. All this really means is that someone has paid me a…
In the novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut writes: I make my living being impolite. I can only pray to be as fortunate someday.
I love The Office. There was a time when Jim and Pam weren’t together that I hung on every machination of their potential relationship. The best part of this floor…
Thought: What if I gave my students one day each week to work on any project they wanted? What would happen? Daniel Pink seems to suggest that I should expect…
Every time I get angry at my cat for waking me up in the morning or sending my to work with a hole chewed out of the crotch of my…
I had dinner with friends a couple nights ago. For a time, conversation centered upon clothing (as it always seems to do), and a woman who I had met just…
