Annals Of The Hive

Apparently, it's now known as Swine again. And we've got a pandemic . The World Health Organization just told its member nations it ...

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

There are several ways to use a book to produce a screenplay. The easiest way, probably, is to ignore the book's characters and plot and...

I've always been fascinated by what writers have to say about writing, actors about acting, directors about directing. But I can think o...

Michael (Crossed Out) has moved to Billy Glad . Sacrifice I The Sugar Gabriel Sacrifice I The Burning Maundy Thursday Good Friday Cir...

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...