Month: July 2012

Iwrote most of the following the morning after the shooting, in the hopes that it would be published elsewhere. It will not be, so I post it here, even though the thoughts may not be as pertinent as they would have been had they been expressed in a more timely fashion.____________The entire country is in ... Read more

So the Cornells went and saw The Dark Knight Rises last night. The theater was half empty at a 7:40 showing, which I think is directly attributable to the tragedy in Colorado where a loonbat murdered total strangers in cold blood. I have written my thoughts about that and will publish them here if they're ... Read more

My anti-Order of the Arrow screeds are attracting attention again, which always brings a smile to my face. The fact that my rantings exposing the secret society of pimply adolescent faux Indians in loincloths are listed as the highest ranked hit on certain O of A Google searches is the greatest possible revenge for my ... Read more

Fora brief, shining moment circa 1993, the name "Stallion Cornell" was in popular parlance at the University of Southern California School of Theatre, which severely irked a real-life theatre school professor with the surname Cornell, who thought I had chosen the name to make fun of him.I hadn't, but I often wish I had.During my ... Read more

Threestories with a single moral. Let us begin.Story One of Three:I lived in Los Angeles during the 1984 Summer Olympics. Those were heady, halcyon days, mainly because of all the free food we were getting at McDonalds.Allow me to explain.McDonalds was running an Olympic-themed promotion offering free food based on how many ... Read more

Anderson Cooper's much-ballyhooed announcement today reminded me of this blog post that has been making the rounds in the past few weeks. Titled "Club Unicorn," it is the story of a gay Mormon man who has been happily married to a woman for ten years, having produced three lovely daughters by means of a "healthy ... Read more