I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan. No, not his music though cuts come up on my playlists. But his Theme Time Radio Hour which I catch on…
Few casual visitors to the Twin Cities will find their way to Litchfield, Minnesota, 65 miles to the northwest. But this lovely town on the prairie’s edge preserves…
Bennington, Vermont: Old First Church. 4/3/11 Updated: Jan. 11, 2012. What do Jack Benny, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Frost have in common? Each achieved greatness in a fiercely competitive…
Today is Ray Bradbury’s 91st birthday. I have admired his writing since I was a boy – first hearing The Martian Chronicles dramatized on radio, then reading it. As an…
Could there be two fun flicks on fiduciary responsibility? Astonishingly, the answer is ‘yes’, sort of. Win Win (2011) I hadn’t read much about ‘Win Win’ before I…
From good friend Leon Gettler comes a Sun (London) article, ‘Charles Toothpaste Shock’. (Punctuation as in original.) Its first paragraph reads: PRINCE Charles depended on key aide Michael Fawcett…
On this day in 1933 Sara Teasdale died. Teasdale is largely forgotten – a great injustice, I think – except by those who’ve read Ray Bradbury’s short story in The…
Among my many claims to fame: I am the only Pittsburgh Pirate fan sentient during the 1960 World Series who will admit he did not see Bill Mazeroski’s bottom of…
I trust my son Jotham’s judgments on, among other things, science fiction in print, on film or on radio. After all, he insisted I watch Battlestar Gallactica, the best…