Remember that old saying about “the sun never sets on the British Empire”? It was true once. But it hasn’t been for a long time and the apt saying today is that the sun has set on the
Vol.106.4: PHOOEY ON FANTASY-AGAIN!
Since I first wrote this essay it has obviously done nothing to reduce the scourge of fantasy films. They continue to pour out of Hollywood and elsewhere to thrill video gamers and anyone
Vol.106.3: GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND ZU-ZU’S PETALS [MR] Reprise of 12. 3.2006
An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures
It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals.
But first, a few words on a
Vol.106.2 Sex, Sex and (Ho-Hum) More Sex: Sebastian Gerard on Potty-Mouth Literature
I will begin with a little confessional. I decided to take a nom de plume—Sébastian Gerard (you already know who I really am)—back in 2004 when I commenced my first novel
Vol.101.2: Homo Sepia Sapiens
No, it’s not one of my typos. You read it correctly—Homo Sepia Sapiens. What the hell is that, you ask ? I don’t blame you; a lot of the things I write provoke a WTF reaction
Vol.106.1: TIME TO GET OUT OF THE DESERT
It has taken a brutal murder by a barbarous people of the Middle Ages to remind us that it is long past time that America, a country with a notorious bad batting average for picking its enemies
Vol.105.7: FLAKEY JUSTICE
Full disclosure: like Brett Cavanaugh I am also an alumnus of a Jesuit high school, although we were not a prissy rich-boy boarding school that produced guys who sexually-assaulted women (maybe
Vol.105.6: The Funeral Oration as Political Event
In a strange way today’s funeral orations delivered by the likes of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Miss Lindsey Graham, and even, can you believe it, by unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger,
Vol.105.5: ARE WE NAZIS YET?
Ja, ja!, we made it! Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah!
Ilse Koch, the notorious Nazi “Bitch of Buchenwald” concentration
Vol.105.4: THE LONELY ROADS; Reflections on Anthony Bourdain
The obit/tributes to Anthony Bourdain continue to pour in. As a former tour guide, independent traveler and resident abroad it is almost reflexive to draw some contrasts with our different “styles”
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