The Hollow Man

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Just heard the sad news, that the historic -- opened 1931, no lie! -- one-screen movie house in the city of Colusa has been closed as a cin...

Dear fellow souls, When I consider topical (Trump-derived and culminating-in-Trump) kerfuffles, what should come to mind but your average,...

Was that my friend who came so close, but did not quite meet me? I don't know her name -- she is younger than I, has dark hair, is very ...

* WHO * DARKO * 2016

I know I risk sounding like some Cebu Sally on her bomb-bearing moped, but... Dear Philippines:  I have this hunch -- yes, just a hunch --...

Let's face this one right out of the gate:  MONOPOLY is a fucking evil game that brings out the worst in everybody, making all the playe...

Big, bad, SOS news -- I'm kind of sure.  A certain young woman on Facebook, whom I recently added as a friend when she requested I be th...

...But I dare let slip this audacious gobbet of Morgan Freeman-magnitude speechifyin': Give a man a fish, and he'll have fish for ...

I would encourage the younger guys -- guys who served in Afghanistan and Iraq -- to watch FIRST BLOOD (1982).  Excellent movie for them. ...

"Only way to get to where you've never been is to party like you ain't gonna party again." - Prince

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and co...

Thank God at least one of us was using his brain.  No wonder he's where he's at and I'm where I'm at... "It’s called ...

What shame!  What ignominy!  I'm not sure I can ever show my face in public or private or among hallucinated voices ever again...  There...

You know, if Sesame Street was really preparing kids for life in the real world, somebody would blow their lid at Big Bird for insisting tha...

...(and hoping it doesn't get me turned into a pillar of salt.) Anyway, when I reflect on the last several years, leading up to the ev...

My dad was a sailor, who served on the Kitty Hawk and in Vietnam.  (He wanted me to go to Annapolis, but I balked, and joined the civilian w...