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How ugly will it get? My guess? Pretty damn ugly.

Hey, in my book, the young whipper-snapper ran rings around the crotchety old dude once again. And he did it with style and grace. Is it p...

MONEY! So is it the death of Wall Street? The man who gave us Platoon, The Doors and Scarface tells us: " Money was worshiped and conti...

This little profile of Chrissie Hynde in yesterday's New York Times is just the ticket. Chrissie is still the leader of the Pretenders...

Last night our theater company Black Forest rose from the ashes. It was oh so Phoenix-like. We did the Thorn and the Rose our new performa...

Okay, Melissa, here's my first attempt at the "making a sentence from titles of books hanging about the apartment" game: The ...

Watched the Veep debate. I was looking forward to a complete train wreck. Kind of disappointed. But seems to me defending the Iraq war, m...

Global System Shocks... John Robb is one of the few people talking about the fundamental flaws of our interconnected global system. Robb t...

One wonders if this reality has any reality behind it. Is it all just funny money? And what is money anyway? To J.S.G. Boggs it's m...

Remember, I started out as an English Major... I've sometimes thought that life (specifically my life) is like a novel. I've read l...

I wonder what's going to happen next...

Fast Eddie and Minnesota Fats - the final game... "How can I lose?" "Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool."

I got onto this line of thinking from something Bruce Springsteen said in a documentary. He was talking about writing and recording his gre...

It turns out there are two kinds of socialism. Taking money from rich people and giving it to poor people is the bad kind. Taking money f...

This is all just a con game. And the "confidence" has taken flight. I know I live in a bubble, there isn't a Wal-Mart anywhe...

The Lovely Carla and I collaborated on a video. It's gonna be part of our performance piece premiering at the Ravenswood Art Walk in a ...

T.S. Eliot wrote about The Hollow Men: We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. John Robb ...

Why do we paint and write, and put on plays, and dance and sing and play music? So we have less time to think and fret about all the other ...

I've been bouncing around the blogosphere this morning and it's all abuzz with the big 700 billion dollar bailout plan floated by th...

I've been engaged with some real sleaze-buckets. The dregs of the dregs. Real bad actors. Who knows maybe they are just a figment of ...