Last night’s Harvest Moon … in the early morning
“When we were strangers, I loved you from afar; when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart … on this Harvest Moon.” ~ Neil Young
Le penseur
When I was working in Paris, my favorite museum was the musée de Rodin … August Rodin, the French sculptor. Rodin said that before an artist can create art, he “must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” That’s pretty highbrow stuff, and I’m a big fan of the sculpture, […]
Show me the guts …
My MONEY magazine subscription came with an article on how to marry a billionaire. I don’t know. Color me new-fashioned, but shouldn’t MONEY be telling me how to make my own money, not latch on to someone because of his? Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not averse to dating men with money. And I’ve […]
MC in today’s Creative Loafing newspaper
Hey, my article on Chief Abbott (Cop-out in Copland) appears in print today on page 10 of Creative Loafing newspaper. I’d love to hear any and all comments (pro and con) about my suggestion of firing or requesting the resignation of Chief Abbott — so feel free to post your comments here. If you want […]
The perfect relationship
Last year, a really nice man I had met at a holiday party invited me out for a drink. I met him, we chatted; we parted after an hour. He called me the next week to invite me for dinner and I had a choice: tell one of those oxymoronic “white lies” or tell him […]
Last night … Socrates and Sex steamed up the Sarasota News & Books!
Here are my notes from last night’s talk at Sarasota News & Books … I also spoke extemporaneously a bit about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan … but the text below is the gist of what was discussed.
Socrates, sex, and the SRQ
Tonight, at 7:00 pm, I’ll be at Sarasota News & Books — one-half of a two-author presentation. The woman going on before me is Theresa Rose, who, if I were a betting woman, I’d say she’s going to be talking about sex! And that’s a good thing. ‘Cause immediately following her, I’m going to bore […]
Got a Question for MC?
This Thursday, July 23, I’ll be speaking, reading, and taking questions (and of course, signing copies of my book Sideways in Sarasota) from the audience during a book event at Sarasota News & Books. The shindig begins at 7 pm — I, along with another Creative Loafing contributing columnist — Theresa Rose — will be […]
Boomer and the butterfly
And all men kill the thing they love . . . — Oscar Wilde, the ballad of reading gaol Tonight, the story of Boomerang and the Butterfly. I was walking Boomer, as I always do. Taking him out for his evening air, his nightly stretching of the legs, sniffing of the air, the remembrance of […]
MC in today’s Sarasota Herald-Trib! Happy Father’s Day!
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune picked up a piece I wrote and is running it in today’s paper. If you pick up a copy, the column, titled What a Dad Needs to Tell a Daughter, is on page A12. Or you can read it online at the newspaper’s website, by clicking here: What a Dad Needs to […]