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Nine-part story starting now! This week has seen the start of "Tommy and the Guttersnipe," an eight-chapter story with a holiday s...

The gift of a future I've mentioned Esther Garvi's blog, and the Eden Foundation which her family has established in Niger. Their g...

Two Quarks for Muster Mike (Adventures in the Software Trade) The past week has been fairly quiet as I spent most of it saying bad words, ac...

Amid all the exploding heads, wisecracks and misinformed commentary, let's at least listen to what the man has to say about it.

Grand au Pere Above are Charlie Ruggles and Debbie Reynolds in "The Pleasure of His Company," one of my favorite movies, in which ...

Among my souvenirs (Click for a larger version) David Gustafson, my former publisher, remarked on Facebook last night that he once forced me...

What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remembe...

A few minutes with Jef Mallett "You can't have the blank page -- that's just not an option." I was in Lansing, Michigan, t...

Moving Day Getting ready to vacate the apartment this weekend. I think I've got most of the important stuff boxed up ...

Sadder but wiser Forty years ago, at the age of 19, I became sadder but wiser. My first serious romance, an astonishingly beautiful woman, r...

Ten (plus 30) Years After A warm thank you for Ten Years After! A few posts ago, I alluded to an article I had written on Woodstock 10 year...

On the 40th anniversary of my first glorious and tragic romance, Groucho sings of a lady who was equally memorable and, alas for me, easier ...

Getting Woodstock right I promised to post something about Woodstock that was more authentic than the blah-blah-blah we've all heard for...

A giggle of cartoonists (Click on images for larger versions) Yesterday, Dartmouth College gathered, in Jules Feiffer 's terminology, no...

Among the anniversaries I hadn't intended to post anything about Woodstock because (A) I didn't go and (B) it quickly grew into some...

Whatever happened to the world of yesterday? I've kind of kept quiet about this , but we're two weeks away from the 175th anniversar...

I hate using this cartoon again As the dust settles, a little bit of good news. Apparently, the Cambridge Police are going to look into thei...

Can't believe they still do this There are certain things you just assume don't happen anymore, and having large chains of pet store...