Annals Of The Hive

When I came home from the Army in the late Sixties, I spent a lot of time smoking dope and arguing with a good friend about whether everythi...

Alfred North Whitehead once wrote: "Our knowledge of the particular facts of the world around us is gained from our sensations. We see,...

Vietnam Is Where I Found My Family By Ann Bryan Mariano "Sometimes an officer would say, 'What the hell is a woman doing here?'...

This old piece from ten years or so ago might be interesting in light of speculation nowadays that large language models like ChatGPT are on...

  Here's the ChatGPT 4.5 session that updated The Cyborg. It took about 15 minutes.    I said: I wrote the attached article 10 years...

I like accidents, ephemeral events, things you catch out of the corner of your eye. Melancholy moods, dark streets, the rain. Redemption. Se...

My first motion picture theater was the State Theater on 21st Street in downtown Galveston. The ticket window was on the street and there wa...

When I was a child I had the measles, and my grandmother and her sisters took turns reading to me. I don’t remember a single book. And the o...

In was in 1967 that I discovered Antonioni and Fellini. I saw Blow-Up (1966), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Persona (1966), The Loved One (1...