So Friday evening, December first, about ten-thirty at night, I asked my wife, Janine, to call for an ambulance. I could barely breathe. I had been barely breathing for days; for weeks, I had found it difficult to take in a breath when I did something as simple as stand… Continue reading
So I just found this great article in Get Pocket, which shows up on my desktop as soon as I turn on my computer. An oral history of the making of My Cousin Vinny, which is basically a B picture but so well written and so well acted that it… Continue reading
Few Will Understand, and of Those Who Do, Fewer Still Will Speak of It I’m not sure what that means, but it has a ring to it, same as So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done. For years I couldn’t remember where I’d heard or read that…. Continue reading
I’ve finished reviewing the pages of Oron, which will soon be released by Wildside Press in a refreshed version. I say refreshed because I have not heavily revised the story. I’ve corrected the typos in the Zebra edition of 1978, removed or amended the many “hysterical” dramatic elements that mistakenly… Continue reading
I haven’t been writing much on my blog for a few weeks. I think it is from the feeling of being snowed in and so cold. But! I just found an article on how scientists have extracted some Neanderthal DNA and have grown a Neanderthal “mini brain” in a petri… Continue reading
So Svengoolie last weekend showed Creature from the Black Lagoon (not The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which is how it always fools me, with that initial definite article, like Carpenters, the sister-and-brother act, not The Carpenters), and I watched it for the umpteenth time and enjoyed it just as… Continue reading
Sometimes I wonder, if were on a desert island, alone in some ocean, would I continue to write, find some way to write? There would be no one to read what I wrote, no one to listen to me read aloud what I had put down, for me to ask… Continue reading
So the other night I was up late and I watched The Twilight Zone on Me-TV, the Chicago channel that boasts Svengoolie and SciFi Saturday Night and otherwise broadcasts nationwide television shows from the Fifties through the Eighties. The episode was “The Masks,” and those of us well-read and of… Continue reading
Word day, I guess. Sometimes I latch onto a word and roll it around in my brain, I don’t know, just to do it because it is a word. In the current issue of Vanity Fair (yes, I subscribe, both to mock the rich and famous in the photographs of… Continue reading
Yeah, it was the worst year in memory, and it hit most of us very hard. However, at the end of each year and the beginning of the next, I try to remind myself that the world didn’t end (although we came close this time) and that there always seem… Continue reading
