You’re Breakin’ My Heart
The adventures of Huckleberry Ossian on Capitol Hill, summer 1973
The Horrors of Love
This Substack's primary raison d'etre is the serial publication of my novel FRANKENRIDE, with one-off unrelated posts tackling current politics, (mostly) vintage pop culture, and whatever else gets me going that week.
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Our Nixon
My Village Voice obituary from 1994, now revised and slightly expanded. It got me a fan letter to the editor from Norman Mailer, who’d been my hero -- along with Pauline Kael -- back in high school.
American Woman: Forever Dolly
B.: January 19, 1946, near Little Pigeon River, Tennessee, U.S.A. D: Not before the end of time in any universe you can name, people.
The Bechdel Fallacies
Donald Trump as the fisheye lens through which we measure everybody else’s values, and other stories.
The Most Overrated General(s) in American History
Presenting Robert E. Lee, royal f*ckup, with a curtain-raising cameo by George S. Patton
Pearl Necklace Harbor
Trump thinks he’s immune, but we know he’s a carrier
A Stone From Omaha Beach
Memories of Berlin and Normandy, 1966-2001
It’s Hard in Here For A Pimp
Trumpland, U.S.A,: Manifest Destry rides again
Frankenride 11: JerUSAlem
O-D basketball’s Avignon Papacy, Kirk Ghentile’s exit from Egypt, goys’ favorite line in the Haggadah, and Craig’s first Halloween Frankenride.
"The ship? Great God, where is the ship?"
WWID: What would Ishmael do? Or Billy Budd, come to think of it?
Goodbye, Scrapper
Dave Marsh, 1950-2026
Frankenride 10
Huck Grimm's child, Helen Wabash's surprise fantasy, a Visiting Professorship for Craig at the New Orleans School of Government, and more.
Queen Mab's Concession Speech
Clowns to the left of them, jokers to the right -- what's a good Democrat to do?
Drunk History in The Making
No, Trump isn't an alcoholic. He just might as well be, and that goes double for the Trumpified GOP
A Tale of Two Kentuckians
Andy Beshear vs. Thomas Massie in 2028? What the heck, we've seen it before.
Odyssey, Oddy-Do
Christopher Nolan's fans Make the house of Atreus Great Again
Frankenride 9
The return of Bob Dole, Craig's adventures in onanism with Hugh Heffalump's skin magazine, and more
Chuckles Bites The Dust
What will Europe do without Americans? Oh, they'll be just fine.