Lemurian Congress

On Thursday night I watched the rehearsal for " 60 Dances in 60 Minutes ," which will be performed at The Registry Theatre on Nov...

How do you freak out a secretary? Tell her that her typewriter is making her UGLY! Have you that work-weary look...that clickety-clack expre...

Here's a cautionary tale from the pages of The New Yorker (March 18, 1929). It doesn't go in quite the direction I thought it would....

The party is finally picking up. The smiles have become manic, toothy, like the grins of boxing fans anticipating a particularly good fight,...

I'll watch any science DVD that comes my way, and I have a special soft spot for shows about space. Anything that helps me get a grasp o...

During the blizzardy winter of 2008 Jenn Wilson and I made a plan: we would go to Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and take pictures of me ...

As a constant and unrepentant pedestrian I suppose it's inevitable that I get hit by cars every few years. This morning I was hit for th...

The Case of the Oily Foundation Even if you have a singularly oily T-Zone, purchase a non-greasy prep lotion such as the one marketed by Quo...

I promised myself that I wouldn't drink ANY booze before or during the Pride Prom, and it's a promise I managed to keep. Alcohol cer...

My car has been sitting in the parking lot since I got her, staring at me in a disgusted way. "You're too scared to drive me,"...

Whenever the holidays creep up on me I am besieged by nightmares about living "at home." In these dreams I am back in my old bedro...

My general dislike of Nicole Kidman aside, I think she can sometimes be an effective actress. And yeah, she's good in "Invasion....

I'm no stranger to semi-voluntary habits. As a child I was such a bundle of twitches, shakes, and clenchings that it's a wonder they...

This weekend I decided to re-read Thomas Pynchon's " The Crying of Lot 49 ," and it's the first time I've immersed my...

There is only one thing about winter that I enjoy: the opportunity to push cars out of snowbanks. As a pedestrian I am often in the position...

You go to work because you want to finish a big project. Your part of the building has about thirty people in it, but today there are only f...

Sometimes it seems like the world is out to get me. You know this is leading to a story about intense frustration, so let's get right to...

A few weeks ago I (poorly) digitized a couple of rare Canadian music videos, and then put them on YouTube. Strangely, the one that generated...

I should have learned by now: NEVER skip dinner before doing a drag show. For some reason, even though by skipping dinner I'm actually N...

I'll have more to say about Scheherazade in a day or two -- once I've finished "Tidewater Tales" -- but for now here...