“Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You’re on the outskirts of society.” — Frank Dillane This isn’t New York The city sleeps tonight There are a handful of people awake — Emergency medical, police, 24 hour convenience, Stragglers down the street to nowhere But it is the stragglers who interest us the […]
I am toying with an idea for a book about a world in which 50 megacorporations rule all. This leads naturally to the thought: what would such a world be like? Clearly, companies would like their own authority over the temporal world. They feel severely hemmed in and constricted by governments, and probably believe they […]
The Russians fear it. Chaos in government. Many nations around the world have had the same problem. A “Time of Troubles” brews and rears its ugly head. What to do? Whether it is a monarchy or a long-lived democracy, stability can only be achieved if the ground rules are understood and accepted by all. In […]
Looking down, it was a long way down the slope to the bottom of the pit. Chunks of gravel were embedded in the sides of the bowl of earth and they glittered in the Saturday noon daylight like bits of diamond mixed with stone. Quartz was everywhere. There were ragged trees on the far side […]
If it was up to the typical man, everyone would be exactly identical in look, thought, and action. It’s not that he likes similarity. It’s that he feels compelled to enforce his orthodox views on everyone else. The majority consistently homogenizes and reduces everything to its simplest, most palatable form. The majority would die if […]
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.” — Abraham Lincoln The light that dwells within every one of us Is not a transient feature of this reality Is not an ancient […]
There are three ways to approach other people: with kindness in your heart, with cruelty on your nerves, or with plain old indifference. The most popular of the three is the latter, but there’s not much story in indifference. Like the great Heartiste says, the opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. You just […]
The title of this piece refers to a comment by a regular commentator to Dark Sport, John Malone, that Stephen King has lost his mojo. To which I replied, He lost it a long time ago. Stephen King is an interesting case. Here we see a man who cozies up to a political faction (the […]
To be immortal. Some wouldn’t know what to do with their time. Others would despair at having to be stuck on the mortal plane that long. But a significant number would love it, and would sign on board in a second if the opportunity presented itself. Since ancient days, tales of immortality have been with […]
The world is hungering for a mega rock star to take his anointed place in the firmament of stars. For too long now, we’ve had small singers, minor musicians. Not since the 1950s and 1960s with stars such as the Beatles and Elvis has there been someone who was truly big. Today’s star is Taylor […]
