Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

I wrote the following piece for the blog BLT Is Not Just a Sandwich, and I’ve already gotten myself into trouble over it. I’ll reprint...

The past few days have been pretty hectic, job-wise. In between editing a couple of books, supervising the other designers, writing...

Jim Morrison wrote “Strange Days,” the song, for The Doors’ album of the same name, in 1967. The album was considered an artistic...

I’m publishing this while the votes are still coming in, before we know what’s happened. I’ve found a number of people online are sharing...

I know, I know. You’re as tired of politics as I am. I tend to watch television with my DVR remote in hand, and I always speed through...

Since I seem to be devoid of new ideas, or too pressed with work and life to spend much time writing and working on the long-promised Big...

Ron Howard wants to talk about the election. So does Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. (This video has swept across the Internet like...

Damn my sieve of a brain! At the end of today’s treatment, my brilliant acupuncture physician and dear friend, Jeannette Westlake,...

Floriduh is doing one thing right: They’re helping more people vote by offering absentee voting to everyone, not just those who are...

I found this utterly fascinating.

Following years of controversy, German dignitaries this week dedicated a memorial to the tens of thousands of gays and lesbians [The...

My activist days are pretty much behind me. I am no less passionate about my politics, but I am much less apt to do much about them...

Margaret White, the psycho mother of Stephen King’s Carrie, immortalized in the film I should’ve killed myself when he put it in me....

By Bill Harlan, Rapid City Journal Friday, December 21, 2007 Political activist Russell Means, a founder of the American Indian...

By WALTER GIBBS, The New York Times Published: October 13, 2007 OSLO, Oct. 12 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today Al Gore, the...

From the recently published Reagan Diaries. The entry is dated May 17, 1986. A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his...

When my brother enticed my mother to move down to Florida, he told her that Cape Canaveral was chosen as the NASA launch site because...

By Frederick Clarkson | talk2action.org | Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 11:52:29 PM EST So says Rev.Wiley Drake, the former Vice President of the...

by SONYAH FATAH | The Globe and Mail August 11, 2007 THIMPHU, BHUTAN — Monarchies have inspired bloody revolutions, internal dissent and...