here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of ot….

Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire fami….

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely..

Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social ev….

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to….

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going..

All autobiography is fiction..

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat..

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!.

Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer ga….