Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen ...
Chris answers, “Okay, okay. I’m fine with it if it’s what you want. …say, I have an idea. Let’s put this whole office mixer party thing on hold and talk about it after work.” (and in an aside to herself) “I know you well enough by now to know that by then your ...
This weekend somebody will most likely do something very very stupid: my money is on Jerome Powell for no other reason the Batphone at the Eccles Building must have been ringing non-stop since Monday and so far Powell has proven to be completely unable to resist any demand originating from...
On its 10thanniversary, Straight No Chaser mutated via a major re-design into a magazine of ‘Interplanetary Sounds Ancient to Future’. The world had changed. Imagine, when we started there was no internet, no mobile phones, Apple Macs were in their infancy. We had come a long way. The...
After his 2008 cardiac bypass surgery he could not talk for 12 days because he had a ventilator tube down his throat. He scribbled notes to his visitors with a Sharpie and a notebook which he keeps in his nightstand as a reminder of his fragility and resilience. Paul A. Eisenstein is ...
public meetings, movies and plays, stores, ball-rooms, trains (except in the smoking car), buses (except in the back seats), at the dinner table (except when invited by the hostess near the end of the meal to do so). Many people feel that ladies should not smoke on the street. Be...