A talk show host I used to listen to believes that time is accelerating. Not figuratively, but literally. His name is Jeff Rense and, while his anti-Zionist rants are tedious, I do share his sense of a decrease in the distance between tomorrow and today. It’s been four years, for example, since I arrived at […]
I wasn’t looking forward to the photo call for this show. 15 headshots, 3 promo setups and only a broad-stroke plan of action. But more concerning than the volume and vagueness of what lay before me was the nature of the people to be photographed: pop vocalists and musicians, for the most part, very few […]
There’s a passage in the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here that I’ve flagged. It’s about the fragility of social order, but on this particular day it reminds me of my bipolar friend … “… The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would take just a few thousand big shells and gas bombs […]
