“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans’ domestic phone calls in bulk.” – New York Times, June 30, 2015 [Dials the...
There were three magazines my dentist's waiting room: the current issue of Showplaces; a dog-eared copy of People (“Robert Pattison Bares All!”); and a new publication, Consumer’s Guide to Sex (“CGS Rates the Vibrators”). So I picked up Showplaces. “For his Telegraph...
In order to write this "musical" I had to pick a pocket or two. I chose Lionel Bart’s pocket where I found his musical "Oliver." The serfs in my musical are working people. Rich Man (spoken) Please, serfs, I want some more. Tune: "Oliver" Serfs Oligarch, oligarch,...
I got on Twitter because of Eddie Izzard’s feet. Allow me to ’splain, as Desi used to say to Lucy. As a member of C.L.A.M. -- Chronic Late Adopters Mob -- I had just discovered the actor/comedian when he started running 7 weeks of marathons around the UK for the...