They Will Rise Again From the Tundra

January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008

I just deleted everything I wrote about Paul Newman.  It was the dumb, silly conjecture of a saddened fan and admirer of Newman’s work, and in retrospect, I’m ashamed I ever wrote it.

I can only say at this point that I admired Newman above his contemporaries, even (and especially) Marlon Brando, whose hubris and egomania clouded his abilities as an actor (SEE: Apocalypse Now).  And though Robert Redford is up there on my list of favorites, no one did it quite like Paul Newman.  He was and is irreplaceable as an actor and film star.  One needs only see four films to reaffirm this notion, and yes, they are the big ones—the films everyone knows or should if they don’t: Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Hustler, and The Sting.  The lexicon is larger, but if … Read more

If you read my article “Welcome, Sarah Palin and the Agents of Change”, you all know how I feel about John McCain’s running mate, but don’t take my half-assed rambling too seriously.  Take it from someone who knows Sarah Palin.

If you haven’t stumbled upon it already, I highly recommend everyone read the following article:  http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341

Enjoy, kids.… Read more

The boy’s weird, Channon. You should trade him in. Or sell him for salvage. Spider Jerusalem

I awoke in a pissy mood today, and that sentiment has only been augmented since I rambled by WritingUp to pull down something like 250-pages worth of my blogs before the site went on a permanent fritz. Well, looks like I missed the boat and those lurid, depressive ramblings will be lost forever, or at least until I am able to recover what I can from the bowels of Google’s HTML cache, which is a task I am not overly anxious to undertake, nor am I expecting it to yield much in the way of positive returns. If I can salvage some of the more pertinent inanities I spewed forth in those tumultuous and confused times, the whole thing might be worth the effort. Barely.

I am getting what I deserved, though. Faith in … Read more