Musings and Writings

Life’s Story

A couple of my high school classmates have passed away in the last couple of months. Fifty-two isn’t old, but death drudges up from my rickety memory the Philip Roth quote from Everyman, “Old age isn’t a battle: old age is a massacre.” We are just beginning to see the first casualties on the front lines…

30 Years in 30 Seconds

Thirty seconds or possibly a minute was about how long I had.Hello.
I remember you and no, I didn’t have to look at your name tag to cheat (or I did).
Wow, haven’t seen you in a long time.
Where are you living now?
What are you doing?
That’s nice.
How many kids? Grandkids? I have one…

Positive Motivations

My previous high school reunion post was perceived by many as negative. It wasn’t — although it did employ numerous rhetorical devices that the cult of the positive find offensive. You see, it is possible to be positive by being negative. Warning Nostalgia Alert: Mrs. Beattie’s opening quote…

Reflections on My 30 Year High School Reunion

Unlike some of you, I remember damn little from high school, which maybe isn’t surprising given how long it has been. If our lives are broken down into what we can remember, the years up through high school represent only the first third of our…

Digital Genres

What are the new digital genres? New lingo is springing up — “cross-platform” or in the phrase that shows up no where in Google, so that must mean I coined it (not saying I did, just that Google can’t find it — “re-sourcing digital content”, by resourcing digital content, I mean that when an artist or…

Sex, Politics, Morality, Gender and the Publication of the Private(s)

Sex and politics have always been strange bedfellows where the trysts and couplings of political ideology and sexual mores end up resembling either Dr. Doolitle’s Push-me-Pull-you or a Caligulan orgy, neither…

Dear Voters

Dear Voters,

If you are as anti-deficit as you say you are and as fiscally conservative as you say you are, then you should have no problem raising revenues on the richest 2% of the country. They don’t pay those taxes now, but boy are they creating lots of jobs. (That is sarcasm…