The Death of Bugs Bunny

What did you expect, a happy ending?

The Play Will Make It Okay

You will blame innocent people for your affliction, and you will hoard, and you will trample upon your fellow man, and you will make merry among yourselves, and even till the angel knocks on your very door you will never cease to fill the world with your noise.

Go Tardigrades (Part 2)

“Maybe it sounds kinda stupid but, in a way... it’s almost like I’ve always loved you, and I’m pretty sure I always will.“

A Word in Your Ear, From Father to Son (Part 2)

Know that the air you breathe, I live to give you, and know that while you live and breathe, you are powerful.

A Word in Your Ear, From Father to Son (Part 1)

Let me tell you, then, about the time I slew the great big dragon.

The Gargantua of Barkhamstead, CT

While Anselm of Canterbury's famous philosophical nugget was meant for no more than to simply illuminate the splendor of God to the unbelievers of old, someone nonetheless must have imagined as an intellectual curiosity the largest possible human being, one that could not be possibly any bigger if anyone could even try. That intellectual curiosity would nine months later emerge in Barkhamstead, CT.

To the Moon and Back with Georges and Jeanne

"Can we really leave for the moon," Jeanne remembered asking Georges, delirious with joy, "oh, Georges, can we really leave?"

"Not without leaving a piece of youth," he replied.

Here I Come, Constantinople (Part 2)

You really think this is all going on just within the city limits? These are two whole universes, two entire histories converging on each other, my friend. You think our ghost city isn’t going to catch up with you in America? You want to outrun it, so you say? Well, then, how far to the end of the universe will your plane go? If you don’t like being in two places at once here and now, how do you think you’ll like it for the rest of your life?

Here I Come, Constantinople (Part 1)

They went to the Hagia Sophia first... It was the highlight of the whole trip, and it lasted just over an hour.

People Who Love People

Someone turned the air purple. London has its pea-soupers and we have our borscht.