I’ve always wanted to be in cahoots with somebody. I used to take the path of least resistance, but it was too exhausting. If you could devote your life to the study of one subject, what would it be? There…
I always wondered how Franz Kafka got his story ideas. Now I know he must have owned an LG refrigerator and tried to get it repaired. I saw some guy in a uniform at the health club carrying an enormous…
It’s now been a couple months since I quit Twitter, making an occasional checkin on LinkedIn my only social media activity. The transition is going much, much better than expected. I thought I would go through withdrawal, feeling out of…
A fan of horror and science fiction from way back, I’ve come across countless references to H. P. Lovecraft, the early 20th-century New England horror story writer who influenced many of the great writers, filmmakers and artists in both genres. …
Emotionalism in politics is the easy way out. It’s a way of ignoring the downsides of one’s position. Social media is the conduit through which mental sewage splatters onto the public square. Grand gestures are usually empty gestures. The most…