“This Is Your 2 AM Shake-Up Call”
(NOTE: This morning we had a mini-earthquake here in LA. I thought this was a good opportunity to post a story I wrote a few months ago after a bigger earthquake we had in the […]
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Bartok: A Pun-ishing Musical Tale
It was a Friday night and a fugue of us were on our way to Wild Bill Coda’s for a gin and diatonic after the concert. I wanted to go solo but Manny, Mozart and […]
Brother, Can You Spare a Me?
A long-lost letter from George Washington hintsat the first president’s financial woes -CNN In a recently discovered letter that George Washington wrote in 1787, our soon-to-be First President hoped to solve his money problems by […]
Tomb Each His Own: The Lazarus Letters
Yesterday, while at the last remaining book store in the Western Hemisphere to buy the latest Doris Dibble mystery — Death by Banjo, I spied a copy of my favorite magazine — Archaeology Wow! The […]
Living in an April Fool’s Paradise: Novelty Gags Through the Ages
Black soap. Plastic vomit. Snakes that pop out of cans of peanut brittle. What would April Fool’s Day be without them? Like Paul Rudd, these items never get old. But where did they come from? […]
Vermeer Is Alive and… Well, Painting Again!
The largest ever collection of Vermeer paintings unveiled in blockbuster show – CNN The art world is all aflutter and even atwitter at the recent opening of the largest collection of Vermeer paintings ever assembled, […]
Hold the Green Beer! St. Patrick’s Not Who We Thought He Was
Saint Patrick. Patron Saint of Ireland. A man with his own a day on the calendar and lots of parades in his honor. Of course, naysayers will say (once done saying nay) that Columbus has […]
The Unsung U.S. President: David Rice Atchison
Just as you can’t unpet a dog, you can’t unsing the praises of David Rice Atkinson, mainly because no praises have been sung of him. He is the man who has the distinction of being […]