Characters:

Jim: Successful middle-aged attorney and Pi’s former lover

Pi: Twenty-something Asian actor

Jeff: Middle-aged teacher and Pi’s current lover

Setting: Jim’s swank Manhattan apartment.  Jim and Jeff don’t particularly like each other and the scene picks u… Read full post »

Though my original posting of the following received no notice (for reasons not unexpected, as you’ll see), there is a postscript to it.  That postscript I now include.  More important, I’m posting again because I’m committed to try and try and try, and to never stop tryin… Read full post »

A friend of mine, I’ll call him Andy, moved to Florida recently.  Another step, at least so I hope, in his quest for the good life.  Or as Andy somewhat wis… Read full post »

Rikers Island. 

 Having spent two years of my life in New York prisons, part of that at Rikers Island, the stories of the incarceration of Dominique Strauss-Kahn unsettle.  But it’s another part of his story which raises memories that will haunt me forever.  Memories about/… Read full post »

CAST OF CHARACTERS

“Mad” Scientist

Igor, his assistant

“Sane” Scientist

Ivan, his assistant

The Internet

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The basement of a non-descript suburban home somewhere in the Northeastern U.S, circa 12/21/12… Read full post »

I read recently that, in 1998, scientists discovered that the expansion of the universe is actually increasing in speed.  As of yet, there’s no “scientific” explanation for this anomaly.

Of the three fates which await our universe, this observation gave added weight to one&mdas… Read full post »

In November 2003, I picked up an underage male prostitute.  On December 12, 2003, I was arrested for that crime.

               After my arrest, the police—the State—unfolded my life.

     … Read full post »

“Before the end of this century, the growth rates of our technology … will be so steep as to appear essentially vertical … [culminating in] the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology... [and producing] human intelligence trillions and trillions of time… Read full post »

A few days ago I was channel surfing and I stumbled upon a television series where the protagonist, through the examination of subtle facial and bodily clues, is able to tell when someone is lying.  That reminded me of a real-life 60 Minutes report about some technological marvel-in-the-making w… Read full post »

A chapter from my book--feedback welcome:

A thousand-mile separation, a March sun that enfolds and my brothers’ love all help me to relax, at least a little bit. To further help to prepare me for that evening’s meal and a conversation for which no preparation is possible, I take my custom… Read full post »