Day 211: Holding Back The Years – The Phantom Time Hypothesis

originally published July 29, 2012 Is history a lie? Actually, history is filled with lies, depending on how specific you want to be. The winners tell the story, and those who penned the particulars were often doing so at the behest of someone in charge who was looking for something to inspire, influence, or quash […]

Day 210: The Stately Queen Of The Skyline

originally published July 28, 2012 I’m not going to lie. While this site often adopts an air of academic objectivity (so long as the topics of bacon and the New England Patriots’ magnificent defeat in their past two Super Bowl appearances don’t arise), I cannot always remain impartial. There are some subjects I will write […]

Day 209: The Olympic Junk Drawer

originally published July 27, 2012 Unless you’ve spent the last few months bolted to a large slug’s wall, awaiting a princess disguised as a bounty hunter to liberate you from your carbonite enclosure, you are probably aware that the 2012 Olympics are kicking off today in London. I’m not sure if Ms. Wiki’s Random Article […]

Day 208: Hosting TV Talk’s History

originally published July 26, 2012 Hey kids. It’s your Uncle Marty here with a little talk to get you ready for grown-up life. Your parents will handle the important stuff: sex, career, whether it’s okay to ask a woman if she’s pregnant. I’d like to talk to you about talk shows. You’ve probably seen a […]

Day 207: Flavor-Trippin’

originally published July 25, 2012 Are you tired of eating stuff that tastes like the stuff you’re eating? Who isn’t? Nature has provided us with a rich and elaborate spectrum of flavors, ranging from the soul-absorbing umami-sweet of Mr. Cecil’s succulent ribs on Pico Blvd in West L.A. to the What-The-Sweet-Unholy-Crap-Is-In-My-Mouth??? of Brussels sprouts. Some […]

Day 206: Pog-Slamming – Not As Dirty As it Sounds

originally published July 24, 2012 When would be the perfect era to come of age? To be college-age amid the debauchery of the 1960s? Old enough to drink illegally in the 1920s? Or should we envy the youth of today, who are growing up with a virtually endless trove of pornography but a mouse-click away? […]

Day 205: Astral Projection – Is it Real?

originally published July 23, 2012 The following is a free-verse poem I wrote about astral projection. More important than its message is the message you can only see once you’ve mastered your own cerebral air-travel. Yes, this means there is a coded communication hidden within the poem. Seek it out if you can. Astral projection. […]

Day 204: “Probability” – Because Why Write About What I Know?

originally published July 22, 2012 Since the beginning of this bizarre experiment, I have had the privilege of writing about a movies I have never seen (Mermaids), musicians I have never heard (Bob Log III), places I’ll never go to (Leckhampstead), people I’ll never meet (Mary Nissenson), and now I get to write about a […]

Day 203: The Skies Light Up Over China – The Flying Tigers’ Legacy

originally published July 21, 2012 Inside that gristly cloud prior to an imminent war, men have been known to indulge in some strange undertakings. Those iron-grey months before the Japanese squirted their rage onto the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor carried the distant flugel-blasts of impending battle, and for a group of American servicemen, […]

Day 202: Bad Advice No One Should Take – Preparing For High School

originally published July 20, 2012 Okay, so you’re male, fourteen/fifteen years old, and heading to a new high school in a month and a half. No one knows you, so no one can call bullshit on the version of you that you choose to sell as the truth. But what to do? Who do you […]