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A FAREWELL FANTASY FROM A TIRED, SAD IMPOSTOR Part One of a Two-Part Memoir      (7/13) "You will make a wonderful secretary,...

Can you believe it? We're already being dragged through another NPR pledge drive. (Be sure to get the "officially sanctioned"...

(Soon to be a major motion picture? The first option expired, but they've bought another.)          (11/14/13) Can you imagine fro...

    (Dec. 23, 2011) When I moved to New York City, people were friendly, garrulous and charmingly meddlesome on the street or in the nei...

I don't have a photo of Punky, but this looks  very much as she did in 1968 -- sweet and beautiful. (10/5/12) Dear Punky Fortune...

Our Seductively Scented World Commits a Fragrant Foul      (8/18/11) Every morning, whether it’s hot and muggy or blizzarding snow, El...

     (4/10/11) It wasn’t until we were at 51,000 feet in the Lear jet that I realized there had been a terrible misunderstanding.     ...

(the movie option expired, but another is in the works)   (5/7/12) I had boozed my way through much of the very Deep South -- whic...

Let's face it: Most of us will wind up here, for weeks, months or forever.      (12/15/11) I wretched. I couldn't help it. I w...

  Don't worry. Be happy ☺ .    (9/13/2013) In a recent post, I documented the desperate -- even ruthless -- effort to gain accept...

                                                                                                   by Matthew Frey This is the follow...

     (8/2/11) Each morning, when Elderly Girl awakes, there is a smile on her lips and a flush on her cheeks.  How could there not be --...

Don't feel bad. He doesn't even know he exists.     Do you ever envision yourself as old and alone? Can you imagine that you ...

An Andy Warhol-inspired depiction of my Fiery Flare.       (7/21/11) In spite of all the dire warnings I’ve received, I am still ref...

I can see for miles and miles.                                                                                by Alphacoder  ...

Thank god, bladder incontinence has become trendy. It's about time!     Elderly Girl inspired billions of people to regard eld...

  UPDATE: Dec. 20, 2014: Researchers find most of Oz's claims to be bogus ( : http://kronstantinople.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-hate-to...

    (1/4/12) "Don't cry, Mama, it will grow back in no time," Elderly Girl says, holding her ever-tinier old mother in h...

    I wanted to understand pedophilia. It took about two days of studying it in a "rational" way before I could tell it was...

If your pacemaker or defibrillator attacks you, that's too bad!     (July 19, 2012) Her beloved husband of more than 50 years had...

    Well, OK I'm sorry, that is a bit too harsh.     But I wish we'd all blow off the Legislature, at the very least, for being...

     (10/14/2011) When Raphael Frattini smoked, it was a thing of beauty in spite of itself. Like some Roman demigod reclining in th...

      (2 012 ) I jog through the decades of my life as I move from one radio station to another, and I know so many lyrics -- along wi...

       Alana had turned the inside of the shack into a place of sparkly wonderment for her children.     (sept. 19, 2011) The “For...

This is Part Two of "Going Down, Please" It is being used as the "voiceover" for a British film. Hiding in plain...

In your tummy, there is a lush shrine to the bittersweetness of life.                                                              Pai...

Pedophiles R Us           (2/8/21)  I'm surprised that everyone keeps being so darn surprised about child sex-abuse ...

    From the Green Room inside a television station in Detroit, I could see on the monitor that the dynamic black host of a local morni...

     (11/10/2014) The tiny woman kneels among the greens in her vast, tiered garden, which is still sparkling with dew. The luxuri...

Oh my heck, is he back in the ring?      (5/28/12) Our nation's most enlightened political commentators have, for the most part...

I have seen their patience, gentleness and love many times. Pay: $8.00 per hour.      I would like to take this opportunity to thank...

Oxford English dictionary has named "vape" the "word of the year for 2014 ." E-cigarettes are fun and flirty, hi...

Puff the "Magic" Draggin' The power of blissful, wishful thinking.    (March 2014) I love e-cigarettes. They're fun....

New info: More data indicating that meniscus surgery is worthless. My doctor is dreamier: He does bedroom surgery.      (1/3/13) When ...

" Burn, baby, burn. Burn this m other down, y'all!"                                          from "Disco Infer...

   (12/24/11) America, we are constantly reminded, is the richest, most powerful, most industrious and inventive nation o...

     (4/15/11) She wears a tight white men's tank top and Bart Simpson boxer shorts as she pumps iron to the music of teen love, ...

   “It’s a dead man’s party. Who could ask for more?” Lyrics from Oingo Boingo’s 1980s hit    I could ask for more. I could ask th...

  Daddy was from a swashbuckling, hard-fighting, hard-drinking breed of Cossacks. His story will be part of the planned movie based on &q...

The backlash has begun against all that 'hype,' PC World declares (Feb. 14, 2015)   I didn't like a State Fair oil pa...

Publisher Bob Guccione died one year ago today . For some real stimulation, try reading the articles.     (11/26/11) New York was a p...

      ( 5/4/11)) Each morning as I walked down Broadway to reach the subway station, I stopped at a little hole-in-the-wall storefro...

Chagdud Khadro, formerly Jane Dedman     (8/1/11) In 1978, one of the most beautiful and compelling friends I’ve ever had was backpac...

    (7/6/11) Back in those golden days of yesteryear, universities had this very quaint and charming notion that their purpose was to f...

Justice Dept. Plans to Sue New York Over Rikers Violence/ Dec. 2014 The Horrors Keep Coming at Rikers/ February 2015 THE WARDENS ...