I've mentioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist and author, Douglas R. Hofstadter , several times in this blog. We especially like...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Last night we watched Cabaret with Lisa Minelli and Michael York. We’d never seen it before, at least no...

 First, thanks to all for your cards, phone calls, and prayers concerning Seleta's health. For anyone who hasn't yet heard, m...

This is an excerpt from Barry Graham, from "Noir:  The Marxist Art Form"  at this link: :   There were rat footprints in the ...

A little rum will get this affair on its feet. DOUBLE, DOUBLE: A DUAL MEMOIR OF ALCOHOLISM by Martha Grimes, the justly acclaimed autho...

An Ox-Bow Congratulations to Ox-Bow and all of his connections, winners today of the Preakness Stakes. As luck has it, I was just ...

The new movie of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is opening soon and its connections have been making the rounds on the telev...