Thoughts Upon Finishing TOM'S CROSSING

Four Months Off Cigarettes

Artistic Tyrants, Picasso, and Van Gogh

Susie Wiles Condemns Vanity Fair for Quoting Her Accurately

The Time I Met James Lipton

Backslide: The Selfish and Mercantile Epidemic in America, and the Hell of Trying to Live Through It

No Kings and American Pride

An Attempt to Offer a Neutral Overview of the Doordash Girl Saga

Being Mindful: A Racist Warehouse Boss

Vital Moment in NYC Mayoral Debate

61 Days Off Cigarettes: New Feelings, Cleaner Living, and Anger

On Being the Main Character on Threads

The 1985 Big Screen Double Feature: DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN and LIFEFORCE

Hegseth's Mystery Virginia Meeting: Facts and Speculation

Ongoing Cycles of Rediscovery

Julia Phillips's You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again

Lukewarm No More: The Costs and Consequences of Denying Reality

Arrogance, Ignorance, and Talking About What You Know Nothing About

Gratitude in an Age of Constant Castigation

My Childhood Friends

Nancy Mace is a Phony: The Same Humanist Standards Must Apply to Everyone

Three Weeks Without Smoking: Don't Drown Out Your Feelings

AI, Art, and Gresham's Law

The Minneapolis Shooting and Our Duty to Listen to Trans Voices

The Worst Date I've Been On in Six Years

Drunken Sandwich Guy: Our Last Hope to Fight Fascism?

The Corruption Poll and the Quiet Trump Voters

Americans Are Becoming Meaner, More Selfish, and Crueler

Leveling and Mixing

Dramatic Reading: Betar's Response to Superman

Brooklyn Rooftop Dance

Putting Your Foot Down with Narcissists

The Beauty of Life

RIP to the Great Character Actor Michael Madsen

America's Amswer to Aktion T4 and Nazi "Experiments"?

On Faith and Caring

To a Former "Friend" in New Jersey

Assassination, Violence, and the MAGA Cult as Stephen King Villains

Zohran Mamdani, Brandon Johnson, and the Politics of Compromise

The Los Angeles Protests and Trump Undernining the National Guard

Artful and Artistic Cruelty

Stuart A. Thompson: The Most Unethical and Arrogant Grifter in Corporate Media

Why Rolling Stone and Miles Klee Are Reckless and Incompetent News Sources That Cannot Be Trusted

On Impressionists

Computers, Anxiety, and Depression

Movie Review: SINNERS

The Importance of Being Grateful

The Difficulties of Being Smart

We Cannot Become Desensitized to These Disappearances

The Vital Quality That Big Creators Lose

Waking Up from a Nap

Karma, Growth, and Patience

Have a Project or a Huge Interest to Preserve Your Sanity

Generosity, Part Two

Feeling Vindicated

When Grief Sneaks Up On You

The New Jam (Apparently)

Attention Parasites

The Hands Off Protests and White Privilege

The Male Loneliness Epidemic is Manufactured