• What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

    It is a question we’ve all been asked at least once at some point in our childhood. And the answer, at least for me, would change depending on the time and place or the frame of mind I was in. [...]

  • Memory & Fog: The Impermanence of Objects, 3rd Meditation

    Once, a long time ago, I told you I would love you forever. I never intended to lie to you. I am back in San Francisco, the place where we once lived together. It has been … what now? 15 [...]

  • Memory Cheats

    The past is not romantic. It is not an adventure. It is not a drama. It is neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is not any of these things. But it is all of these things. Because memory cheats. [...]

  • Fun Facts About Reindeer (with Pictures)

    Reindeer are commonly associated with Christmas because of a certain individual that shows up at everyone’s house for a little light breaking and entering and cookie theft. But these animals are more [...]

  • Thou Doth Protest Too Much: The Silent Night, Deadly Night Controversy

    Obviously after this there was no going back. Your childhood was over, years of therapy ensued, and Christmas – that most beloved of holidays – would never be the same again. Or not. [...]

  • An Immaculate Fix: A Junky’s Christmas

    And so begins the story of Danny the Car Wiper, William Burroughs’ sad but strangely uplifting story about a junky looking to score some heroin on Christmas Day. [...]

  • He Sees You When You’re Sleeping: Krampus the Anti-Claus

    We are all familiar with the benevolent nighttime intruder who once a year indulges in mass breaking and entering to deposit gifts under indoor foliage. You know, the omnipotent fat man dressed in red who observes your every waking and [...]

  • Happy Life Day: The Star Wars Holiday Special

    Well, it’s Christmas time everyone, and nothing says Christmas like Star Wars. And as we know nothing says Star Wars like Bea Arthur and Jefferson Starship! Wait, what? That’s right, the Star Wars Holiday Special [...]

  • Technical Night Before Christmas

    ‘Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus [...]

  • Comic Book Review: Rachel Rising

    Horror as a genre is an unusual beast. It is on the surface just a way to illicit scares, to give you a momentary burst of adrenalin. Other times it is a way to repulse you [...]

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