Fictional Options for Women

Or “Female Character Flowchart.”   You have to click on the image to see the whole picture.

Flowchart Week Continues

McConaughey Wasn’t the First to Bongo

In the late ’90s, I worked on a film called “Infinity” with Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette and screenplay written by Matthew’s mother, Patricia Broderick.   The film was about the early years of physicist Richard Feynmann.   There were no bongos or womanizing in the film and it wasn’t until later that I discovered Feynmann was [...]

Ether Follies

I’ve never had surgery that required I be put under but one of my paranoid fears is that should I ever have to I’ll be one of those who seems unconscious and can’t move but is feeling and hearing everything. Kind of a horror story scenario. And, of course, they steal my thoughts too while [...]

A Tchotke for Everything

I got a Magnetic Poetry Kit as a Secret Santa gift once.   I put the words on my office door and the bored kids in the office were always trying to come up with the dirtiest poems the words would allow.     Yesterday, I saw “I Love My Union Thug” mugs online.   I guess we’re meant [...]

Science & Consequence

A couple of weeks ago I was having lunch with a mathematician I know and he was talking about his struggles to work out citizenship in the US because his home country of Germany forbids dual citizenship unless a very strict level of hardship can be proven. However, his lawyer said that because he could [...]