Rhyme Of The Day

In Washington State: Bellingham police say a 10-year-old boy defended his mother from an attacker by shooting him in the face with a BB rifl...

If you'd like to see my "ten minute play", it's here on Youtube. Somehow it runs almost 15 minutes! I'm guessing it w...

I'm in favor of ugly art being wheeled away in a cart, preferably in the dead of night so none of it bumps against my sight.

The "we" in this sentence that made me wonder about the writer's social circle: The open relationship is the white picket fenc...

I was happy with our 2 performances last night. It came out crisp, chilling, funny, and suspenseful. It was directed by Alexis Randolph, who...

From 9 to 1, I wrote my 9-page play. I felt like I was moving really fast then was surprised so many hours had past. My working title was Re...

Educational failure was sadly obvious this Monday at a bank in West Virginia: WTOV reports that detectives said a "white, scruffy-looki...

I saw the MPTG production of Steel Magnolias tonight. I somehow had missed seeing the movie, and it's not my usual favorite sort of pla...

The summer's flapping flags conceal the structure and its mystery. Blown free of leaves, the trees reveal their frozen fractal history .

I'm taking an interest in these anti-boomer rants that keep popping up. I kind of like them, in a masochistic way. Walter Mead starts ou...

The president thinks Americans haven't done enough to attract foreign investment: But we've been a little bit lazy, I think, over th...

Mike Dash, writing in the Smithsonian Magazine, dredges up an old criminal complaint against William Shakespeare, alleged issuer of death th...

Have you ever seen the "angels" that model Victoria's Secret undies? Did you think their bodily looks were just a genetic gif...

We saw Anonymous, that movie where Shakespeare didn't write the works of Shakespeare. I don't buy the premise as history, but as a s...

Here's a cellphone video of a young man knocking out an older man on a subway platform, here in Chicago. Police are searching for the y...

My body decided to take advantage of Veteran's day, which is a holiday where I work. I slept and slept, I don't know why. I did get ...

Since I was at the office, where we have no TV, I got through my day without being bothered by the National Emergency Alert test. But in a l...

The Trib follows up on my mystery: Allred described her client as a "registered Republican," though Bialek does not have an active...

My friend, Lance Brett Hall, has an enterprise he calls the Launch Pad Casting Workshop. It's aimed at helping actors with the audition ...

A specific accuser for Herman Cain has finally stepped forward. I'm not clear on whether a crime is alleged, but the suggestion is that ...