Every goddamn day: 08/11/26

          With time on my hands, I thought I would catch up on my movie viewing. I don't remember ever actually watching any of the Marx...

     Two days on "Paradise Lost" worked surprisingly well. So when Facebook served up the memory of this column, built around ...

     While I am the sole writer, editor, and proprietor of this blog, I'm not the only person who helps make it a success. Sometimes I f...

Satan, Sin and Death, by Thomas Rowlandson. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)         "F… F… F… J… J… J…"      I don't remember muc...

     “Help yourself to some salad,“ said my wife, pushing an attractive bowl of feta, tomato and cucumber in my direction. I gazed at the pa...

      When the history of our current disaster is written — if we still do that sort of thing — I'm sure the Democrats will get their sh...

         This is a fun story from the summer before this blog began. Checking on the family involved, I see  Peter Blake retired from the Ma...