Earl Fowler 5) Micky’s shameless mugging and Peter’s zany antics appear to have been inspired by Krushchev’s mad shoe-banging incident at...

But I’ve always kinda been partial to calling myself up on the phone and asking myself out, you know? Oh yeah, you call yourself up too,...

Earl Fowler Who hasn’t wanted to live in the movies? Or die there, for that matter? It’s a domain where — despite mortifying setbacks and...

David Sherman The highlight of many a childhood summer began shoehorned into the backseat of my father’s Chevy with my brother and a...

A sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this — poets declare! — Katha Upanishad We of the craft are all crazy....

David Sherman It’s Judith’s fault. A British magazine flew me to Cannes to join their staff to cover the film festival. And, each night...

David Sherman I’ve turned 70 and I want some goddamn respect. I’m getting old. I want my feet anointed with oil. I want to be venerated....

Then will I headlong run into the earth: Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! — Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr....

Earl Fowler We’re on the cusp of August. And if you live in a rural area still served (via some miracle) by a weekly newspaper, you know...

Leisure is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of...

One of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself...

But if you know what life is worth you would look for yours on Earth. — Bob Marley, Get Up Stand Up Earl Fowler What happens when we die?...

Free the prisoners, jail the judges Free all prisoners everywhere All they want is truth and justice All they need is love and care...

I could see life as tragic or comic depending on my blood sugar level but always saw it as meaningless. I felt I was a tragedian locked...

Earl Fowler I know we all learned the Pythagorean theorem at some point and that F = ma was supposed to be as meaningful as a high pot in...

A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PREVENTING THE PARENTS OF POOR PEOPLE IN CANADA FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR CHILDREN OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING...

Earl Fowler Avid readers often lament the rapid decline in the quality of book, magazine and newspaper editing over the last couple of...

We are the first generation to see clouds from both sides. What a privilege! First people dreamed upward. Now they dream both upward and...

Earl Fowler Remember how unimaginably far in the future the year 2000 seemed when we were kids? Who doesn’t recall that tantalizing,...

Secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce, Ulysses Earl Fowler Sarah Jessica Parker’s...