Short of succumbing to the madness of anorexia, I doubt I am likely to experience actual starvation before I die. Nor, I'd bet, will most of those who visit this site. But I'd also bet that most of us have felt the pinch of inflation in our daily diet. I remember the rapid evolution of low-cost middle-class A & P into up-scale, twice-the-price ( Read more... )

Another were-there-but-world-enough theme anthology. It was to have been a whole collection by yours truly, and the first letter would have been sent to Mrs. Gaskell, who inmho should be included with the great Victorian novelists, along with the woman she wrote the biography of, Charlotte Bronte. Recently the BBC has given Mrs. G. some of the ( Read more... )

And what's the best gift you could get from One Who is Himself a Big Idea? What else but a Big Idea of your own? So here are two of them to take up and run with--as I did with one of them once ( Read more... )

She was the Demon Lady on Long Island who tortured two Indonesian maids for years. She was finally convicted and sentenced to eleven years--and is of course appealing, tho the financial part of her sentence is still pending. Back wages for her two tortured slaves might come to $1m. You can Google the name for more details. The new datum I ( Read more... )

Word reaches me from Tachyon that Your God is back in business and you can easily access his Divine Advice at
www.tachyonpublications.com/Letters.html

And you can send in your own questions, personal, theological, literary, or fashion to

God@tachyonpublications.com

Here at this site you will only contact the merely mortal Tom

Featuring King Dunkin' who has this vast Banquet Hall, where there are stacks and boxes of the product newly arrayed in each ad. He will welcome different characters from the Scottish play in each ad--"Why, Lady Macduff! How nice of you to drop by. Do try one of our Choconut Creme Bombes." One unlucky thane never gets a donut. "Macbeth, is ( Read more... )

(An Advertisement} Once a mortal, soon to be in Heaven, I may be ( Read more... )

One of my favorite hobbyhorses, which I like to ride a lot, is Denial and its special psychology. I've often waxed nostalgic for the time I had two Mormon missionaries as next door neighbors, and they both loved to argue about Darwin and Lyell (sp?) with special reference to the Grand Canyon. They had a book of photographs explaining how erosion ( Read more... )

to D-Con, with thanksHe went down the chute just now ( Read more... )

We had had many pre-death services ( Read more... )