: About Me

An early proponent of Nude Encounter Groups in the sixties, I then descended through a series of poorly chosen and random professions, each of which I excelled at to the point of boredom.

Now I'm living in a Home for the Follicly Challenged where we try to sweep excess hair under any rug we can afford.

My passion is ...

hummus with olive oil and chapati bread

I know too much about ...

Brain Salad Surgery

My parents always told me ...

Get a life, you miserable bastard!

My childhood ambition ...

to become a philologist

My favorite memory ...

the time I farted loudly during the High Mass

Why I write ...

to keep the devils off my branch

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the voices in my head

My first job ...

killing excess sheep prior to the goat ritual

My best moment ...

sex with Hedy Lamarr while she invented the FM circuitry

My inspiration ...

thinking of George W Bush's descent into ignominous limbo

Religion & Spirituality > Self-Awareness & Realization Reflections: Taming negative thoughts

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The exclusive interview. Have you noticed that every national morning "news" show uses that phrase? Pardon my naivet, but I recall a time when that would have meant that the interviewee had promised to only speak with that one specific interviewer. Now, apparently, it means 'I'm alone in this studio with this dude and no one else is interviewing him/her right now'. Then the subject of the interview will be jumping into a limo and be whisked cross town to the next 'exclusive' interview and so on, until they run out of interviewers - no, hold on, we've just booked you with a reporter from the...

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