This was the scene last Friday. (We’re standing in front of the building that blew up in “Die Hard.”)
Why’re we all gathered? Because…
Why we are striking? Because…
We had a little help from the local cops…
And because we are writers, there had to be some free food around, courtesy of the nearest agency (they did keep [...]
A walking tour through old Santa Monica:
It is a lovely Fall day – the skies are clear, and it’s warm as summer.
I work in a converted art gallery in the industrial area of this small beach town.
I grew up here, but it doesn’t look or feel the way it did in the 70s.
This [...]
A few months ago this video (Part 1, 2) came out, showing Mitt Romney talking on a right-wing radio show in Iowa about Mormonism and abortion. Romney was once pro-choice when he was runing for office in Massachussetts but apparently had some kind of conversion to the pro-life position once he’d been elected governor. As [...]
His parents passed through Ellis Island as part of the swell of Italian immigrants to the U. S. in the early 20th century, and settled in an area of New Jersey called the Lost Valley.
Though his parents were poor, they raised eight children – one of whom was adopted because his father couldn’t bear the [...]
Strike fashions then…
And now…