Annals Of The Hive

What's fascinating about an academic like Stanley Fish deigning to share his views on the best American films with us is not so much his...

As I near the end of my own time, Updike's Toward The End Of Time provides a kind of reference point for me. I've outlived Harry A...

John Updike is dead. Who'll keep me company over the next 20 years or so?

We're all McLuhanistas now. We take it for granted that the contents of each new medium, the world wide web, for example, is the medi...

The Summer of 1967, an army buddy and I took over the 2nd floor of an old duplex in Galveston and spent a lot of time arguing politics versu...

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...