Category Archives: New Post

An eagle flips the switch

Posted on June 18, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

You know how sometimes you get annoyed with the neighbors and all their loud music and television and too-bright lights? You know how sometimes you just want to march over there and turn off their power? Well this is how … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 8, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

That’s Ava Gardner up there, making the moon eyes. Pretty much every candid picture you see of Hemingway is just like that – he’s the undisputed center of attention. Now a couple of movies, Midnight in Paris and Hemingway and … Continue reading →

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Book Detective: marginalia

Posted on May 30, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Marginalia. Librarians, archivists and some collectors consider it vandalism. Marginalia are the comments, asides, underlining and bizarre streams of consciousness that wind up inked or penciled into the margins of books over the hopefully long course of their lives. I … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Berry, USMC

Posted on May 28, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Cpl. Charles J. Berry of Lorain Ohio served with the First Battalion, Fifth Marine Division. He gave his life on March 3, 1945, on Iwo Jima. During a Japanese infiltration attack he diligently and expertly manned a machine gun emplacement, … Continue reading →

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Smutmerchant

Posted on May 18, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

I won’t dwell on the subject much, this being a family newspaper and all, but if you ever get the urge to do some eye-opening sociology fieldwork, then get yourself a job in a porn store. Think the giga-tera-petabytes of … Continue reading →

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Too much power? We have to do better than this

Posted on May 14, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

The Bonneville Power Administration, which transmits three-quarters of the electricity generated in the Pacific Northwest, is saying thanks-but-no-thanks to wind-power providers in the region. Wind farms are expected to go dormant, because BPA says their power simply isn’t needed. Why? … Continue reading →

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In praise of the green fairy (from afar)

Posted on May 7, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Maybe it’s the rain. As we we enter our third or fourth week of gray, unrelenting drizzle, my mind turns introspective, nihilistic and utterly self-destructive. And since I lack the strength of will to open a vein, or even to … Continue reading →

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What now?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

I was one of the folks who slept through the breaking news on Sunday, then awoke on Monday to a changed world. And what I found, once I absorbed the basic facts and the who, what, when, where, how, was … Continue reading →

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Meditate on this…

Posted on April 30, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

And here we have my first non-fiction book. Meditation, you say? How…exciting. I know. I know. When you meditate, you pretty much just sit there. Not exactly sexy. But what you’re really doing, in a way completely invisible to outside … Continue reading →

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They seem like nice kids

Posted on April 29, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

When I was 12 years old my mother, an unrepentant anglophile, woke me up at 0-dark-thirty to watch what for years I would think of as “The Royal Wedding.” That marriage, alas, did not live up to its fairy-tale beginning. … Continue reading →

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The disturbing yet logical way to eat a chocolate bunny

Posted on April 24, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

First, eat the bunny’s ears. Eat them all gone. This will expose the top of the bunny’s head. Eat this all gone too, right down into the bunny’s face. Take what’s left of the bunny, and dash him repeatedly against … Continue reading →

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The housing problem diagnosed and remedied in four short paragraphs and one long one (and a graph)

Posted on April 24, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Above is illustrated capitalism in a nutshell. For every market for every product or service you can think of, the graph above describes how the price is set. The sweet X spot where demand meets supply is the market equilibrium. … Continue reading →

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A bit of, um, exposure for a friend of The Deconstruction

Posted on April 22, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

That was Mark Smith. Sorry ladies, he’s happily married. Check out his YouTube channel. Directors, producers, talent scouts: feel free to message him via this space.

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Shout out to Amazon.com

Posted on January 28, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Amazon.com has been very good to me. Some writers (and readers, and independent booksellers) have their beef with the Big Dog of book retailing. I can respect that. We can definitely discuss that. But my humble little writing career would … Continue reading →

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