When drama was first invented in Ancient Greece, people consumed perhaps twenty hours of it per year, during annual festivals. Today people ...

(Scene: the board room of Kirk Spock & McCoy Enterprises, an investment firm with offices on the 87th floor of the Empire State Building...

Jeff Bezos made a stir this week, after causing a moment of confusion, with a pledge to donate $10 billion to combat the greatest threat to ...

On Monday it turned out I couldn't log in to my Facebook account anymore. I tried resetting the password, but to confirm my identity it ...

If you’re interested in seeing how a mature, intelligent, professional scholar deals with a jingoistic liberal who thinks in platitudes, and...

This is one of those all-too-common weeks where the airwaves and the Web are so full of rancor, so much of it aimed at figuring out whom to ...

I was watching the 1934 movie GENTLEMEN ARE BORN on TCM the other day, and came to a scene where one of the young women, who had been workin...

Writing projects underway: “The Kings of the Corona”: 17000 word story: finished, accepted for the upcoming anthology TALES OF THE ONCE ...

So two undercover drama critics in New York City attended the "Shakespeare in the Park" production of Julius Caesar  in order to d...

Received Feb 10, 2017, 4:32 PM, from NaNoWriMo What we stand for, what we stand against. Dear Wunderscribbler, As a creative writing n...

At the end of 2018, a curious event will occur that has happened before only twice: at the end of 2010 and at the end of 1926. The first occ...

The year just ended seemed so, well, odd to me that I felt a need to get some insight on it from the spirit world. I had lately learned a s...

It's endlessly fascinating to watch the Left shoot itself in the foot by their compulsion to "express their feelings" about af...

"Why, Milo, old chum! Has my mind me forsook, Or is that your dear phizz on a best-selling book? How did you  get such fame and such ...