When you’re famous, you lose all privacy. Psychopaths target you and try to kill you, necessitating security. Your daily life is unavoidably altered. You develop new routines in the paths you take to maintain your sanity. You can’t even sleep around with your fame-power, because if you’re a movie star, the casting agents (who are […]

The next four days should be bad. I accept this. Someday my life will be paradise but that day is not now. In order to reach one’s dreams, one must have a resilient backbone and the ability to take body blows that would crush lesser men. Technically, I feel okay today. I was able to […]

Before Vladimir Putin launched his “special operation” in Ukraine as he calls it (it’s not a war, you see), he did an interview with American television which I saw. In it, he described the stranding of 25 million Russians in ex-Soviet foreign states as the biggest of tragedies. There are ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. […]

Hi. Greg Nikolic here. I am dealing with a kind of a hangover in my life, not from alcohol but from certain mental exertions over the past 6 days which have taxed me to the limit. Right now, in my life, I am waiting. I have set certain things in motion in Central Canada which […]

I was reading an interview today between George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, and Bill Moyers, a famous journalist known for his celebrity interviews with some depth. In it, George Lucas talks about the nature of imagination and how he brought elements of obscure world culture into his movies, and I got to thinking how […]

My favorite commenter is the most intelligent, most educated one: Brazilian Mutt from South America. He has helped me more than he knows. I’d like to spend a post going over what I’ve gleaned of his political leanings; where he’s wrong, and where he’s right, and why. The Brazilian Mutt is an internet writer by […]

Canada is my home. I live in Central Canada, by the shores of the easternmost Great Lake. There are five of them in North America, dotted with large cities. Some are on the American side, but the most important one is Greater Toronto, and I live in the south of that in Hamilton (for now). […]

I’ve read a lot of great books in my life. I think one of the luckiest finds you can have is to stumble across a book that makes sense and is entertaining, to boot. Here is my list of some great books. The Mist. A novella. By Stephen King. Set in Bridgton, Maine in the […]

If you’re a leader-type, like I am, control is of paramount importance to you. Control over how your life is progressing, control over the women in your life, control over your finances. To be out of control is to be rudderless on a stormy sea, with winds lashing at your face. Control, seated far back […]

Television has assaulted the printed word for 80 years now, dealing a series of body blows that universal literacy education cannot halt. But books and newspapers are still hanging on. The problem with the visual media versus the print media is that it is easier to produce engaging visual media than it is to produce […]