The Passing of Kobe Bryant

MAMBA OUT Lakers legend Kobe Bryant gone too soon after a helicopter crash  MID...

Petty Noose

O UT OF THE BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK There has to be some help somewhere SUICIDE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER. I remember a former classmate w...

Remembering Private Ryan: A Detail

WAR UNDER SCRUTINY  By saving one hapless soldier I WATCHED THAT OLD WAR film again last night,  Saving Private Ryan . I couldn’t help ...

Between Rock and Chuck Berry

GOODBYE, JOHNNY B. GOODE "To hear you play your music when the sun go down" I FEEL SORRY FOR KEITH RICHARDS. When Chuck Ber...

Typhoon Imelda

PICKING UP THE PIECES Typhoon Haiyan (Pablo) ravaged the better part of Tacloban  I  HAVE TO SQUINT MY EYES   watching those images...

My Education of GG Allin

BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT A typical GG Allin show CALL ME WEIRD, BUT GG Allin was the real deal. What Jim Morrison taunted in his infamous Mia...

The Death of The Haunted

LONE WOLF Lolong at his pen The heart is a lonely hunter---Carson McCullers H e died. A month before that, a foreign object was lo...