By Way of a Preface
By Way of a Preface Who to thank. Counsellors. Friends who never gave up. Friends and colleagues lost, found, and forgotten. Parents in a broken system. Back-handed kudos to various others who sent me packing (employers), wife, others — the banks in NYC (Lehman Bros., etc.) — Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan who cooked up…
“A funny 5 minutes”
Quote from a Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmare (UK), in which the head chef couldn’t handle the pressure and stepped outside … me, in that five minutes … my entire dark time flashes through my mind. This really has potential. Stick with it.
Fodder for Fiction: Adoptees & Orphans in Literature, Film & the Arts
How are Adoptees and Orphans in portrayed in Literature, Film and the Arts? Who are they? Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Orphan Annie, It seems as though writers make adoptees and orphans their protagonists a lot. Is it because they’ve more mysterious / tragic pasts, uncertain presents and futures? Is it because their presents and…
Adoptee as Vampire
Adoptee as Vampire Vampire, noun: A revenant is a deceased person returning from the dead to haunt the living, either as a disembodied ghost or an animated (“undead”) corpse. In European folklore, a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed…
Weekends: Some Lost, Some Found.
“Listen honey, … you take things too seriously.” – W.C. Fields, The Diner Sketch in “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”, 1941
Me & Religion: Staring into the Abyss
The Serbian Orthodox Church “Many services, in all denominations and almost all pagans, are exactly designed to evoke celebration and communal fiesta, which is precisely why I suspect them.” (16) I was a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church once. I joined ‘willingly’ to please my Serbian father-in-law, and in order to get married. I…
Me vs. The World
Man vs. System Anti-Authoritarianism / Defiance / Distrust / Anti-Religion / From Agnostic to Atheist Later in So, Anyway …, is a tiny little passage¹ about an incident in which Cleese, then teaching at St. Peter’s, became so infuriated by one boy “who specialised in pushing masters over the edge” that he pulled his hair…
Blood, Water & Šljivovica: In the Shadows of the Ghost Kingdom 