Monthly Archives: March 2010

It was over a quarter of a century ago that I went to a video store in Brooklyn and rented a cassette with a movie on it. The film? The 1982 remake of “Cat People” with Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, … Continue reading →

There is nothing more satisfying for a journalist – even a journalist like me whose principal beat is his cats’ Olympic medal turd hockey tournaments – than seeing one of his columns make a difference in the world.   This … Continue reading →

Eileen Clemens Granfors, an English teacher, will always be grateful to mud season because one year she was able to use it as a teaching moment. “I stepped out of the SUV to get the morning paper prior to teaching … Continue reading →

Last month I was on the “Secrets of Eden,” rock ‘n’ roll, get your T-shirts, running slime dog of literary capitalism book tour, and I lost zero pairs of underwear and vomited zero times on Dash 8 turboprops. In other … Continue reading →