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8/22/26: Making New Sausage with Rob Me: The dispute was for $7200. The bad vendor arbitrarily split that amount into 3 charges on the same day. I won the first dispute, $2350. The temporary credit was made permanent. It seems likely the other two charges will go my way too. It was one complaint. The […]
8/16/26: Why I Stand By My Use of the Word ‘Fascist’ Someone I highly respect questions my repeated use of the word ‘fascism’ in my trilogy. Hopefully what follows is not an argument or defense. This is not an academic treatise on fascism. I’m not qualified or interested to do that. I write from my […]
8/15/26: Road Trip of Joy and Sadness Eleanor Rigby Before the Parade Passes By Warmth Laughter Aging Illness Wheelchairs Happiness is a determined act of courage Tyranny holds power of attorney The fear of seeming weak With good reason A hint of insufficient resources Or physical infirmity Might attract predators Brown shirts hide on the […]
8/13/26: My Visit to the Obama Center What I admired Paula’s mastery at getting tickets The architecture and landscaping The friendly diversity Black White Everything else Affluent Working Disabled Athletic Professors Security guards Every sexual category and orientation Smiling Looking at each other with kind eyes And sincere good wishes … I liked the landscaping […]
8/12/26: Leopoldstadt at Writers Theater is Great; the Difference between Me and Tom Stoppard Circa 2020 Tom Stoppard’s last play Leopoldstadt was produced in 2020. He told Charlie Rose that he wanted to now write just for himself without the pressure of critics and producers. He died in 2025, never able to fulfill his next […]
8/7/26: Second Viewing of The Odyssey You’ve got to go through a lot of shit to get somewhere. True of individuals. True of nations. True of worlds. First comes you. The little whisper inside. Your impulse to love. Then the incoming fire starts. The usurpers who want to steal your identity. The malicious who try […]
8/5/26: American Reality I like to think that America is in the midst of a great awakening. That the Trump years have exposed a cruel and unjust system that we have suffered under for a long time. That the tyranny has become obvious to the most ignorant, insensitive, or unempathetic observer. I like to think […]
8/3/26: Meditating on Writing and Being Published While Watching Julie and Julia Nora Ephron’s last movie before her death, Julie and Julia isn’t about cooking, it’s a little about writing about cooking, it’s a lot about writing and being published … Like all attempts at art … the movie is autobiographical. What else do we […]
8/2/26: Why Is the New Spider-Man So Popular? It’s Beyond Me. It is a rainy day in Lake Geneva. The boat trip is cancelled. Everybody goes to the movies. There are no seats to be had at the local AMC. The Plaza Movie Theater in Burlington, Wisconsin, the former home of the Nestlé’s Crunch factory, […]
7/24/26: Tom Stoppard on Arcadia and Everything Else with Charlie Rose in real time Arcadia says Stoppard is about romance, mathematics and landscape gardening It’s about how we divide the classical and the romantic S says theater is a storytelling art form Oh … my writing is theater and storytelling in part Arcadia is a […]
7/21/26: My Different Path from Retail Book Selling and Improv Careers If you take away the scam element, I still wouldn’t want what the scammers were selling. I now know it’s a whole industry, and they followed a legitimate playbook in an illegitimate way. To self-publish and market retail is not a path I want. […]
