Musings & Doggerel

The title of today's musing comes from a Christmas song written by Steve Allen and performed by Louie Armstrong in 1953. I had planned f...

Well, my intrepid readers, I made a new year's resolution almost twelve months ago to write more blogs in 2018. Over that time, I have w...

"You can't write anything longer than it takes your average person to take an average crap."  - Jeff Goldblum's character ...

At the impressionable age of 14, I read On the Road by Jack Kerouac and saw the 1956 movie, On the Bowery . Thus began my lifelong fascinat...

The title of this post is the transliteration of the Greek for "I found it!" Legend has it that Archimedes expressed this interjec...

Throughout mankind, symbols have represented ideas, natural objects and feelings. Man used symbols in our first attempts to visually communi...

Spinning through the dials on the ol'tube the other night, I came across the 1934 Leslie Howard film, The Scarlet Pimpernel . Howard pla...