Classic tales tell of the old ones, and how they lived and died. We identify, live and die with them, then reflect on our own lives, richer for the learning. Closer to home, we create our own theatre, improvised. The skits play out in comedy our most brutish characters, spiteful…
Narrative Stillness
Tragedy plus time equals comedy. —Steve Allen The bipolar condition describes the fate of humans gifted with the capacity for pleasure and pain, good and evil, ecstasy and agony. If every life is a storyline, then we have to ask, why that story? Can it be told, even described in…
Hopsicker’s Genius
A review of Daniel Hopsicker, Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (2012) Daniel Hopsicker embraces journalistic flair and common-sense irony to present the case for a 9-11 cover-up, focused on the flight schools in Jeb Bush’s Florida. Admirably he succeeds in the challenge of how to…
The Threat to Nonfiction in the Digital Age
No, this is not a serious academic treatise detailing the legal ramifications of libel and slander, copyright and moral rights, or defamation as such. Rather, I come at it from the dilemma of one engaged in frequent travel, blogging back to a select few (~65) friends about my experiences around…