East River Wine and Spirits with insidious, corrupting High School in the background. A few blocks from where I live, there had been a storefront available for rent on the northeast corner of 116th and Pleasant Ave. For a year or so, I had had consistent fantasies that it would be turned into an Arby’s […]

I am a big fan of actor Max Von Sydow. He’s probably best known for playing Jesus in one of those Jesus movies. I think it was Jesus IV. He totally saved the franchise with that one. It was really on the brink after Jesus III when they tried a comedic turn and cast Yakov […]

Hot damn do I ever applaud the hell out of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It’s one of an armful of fairly obviously soul destroying governmental policies the arguments for which fall frighteningly fucking flat. The obvious argument…supporters hate gay people. There is a more credible argument that openly serving homosexuals might spook […]

god does not work…but still goes about it in mysterious ways… I like to believe sometimes…that god DOES exists. And WAS all-powerful. And DID have a plan. But then, one night, when stumbling in the dark to the bathroom to take a piss, he/she slipped and slammed his/her head off the side of the toilet. […]