Tag: humor
Just Say Om
UNITED STATES—Sergeant Carmichael was badass. Before I went into Runyon Canyon undercover, she sent me to the Yale School of Yogic Arts in Van...
Briefly Noted
UNITED STATES—Freud in New York the latest Otis Quigley Keefauver novel (Norton 897 pages) explores one of history’s intriguing what-ifs: what if Sigmund Freud...
Heavenly Daze
UNITED STATES—You wake up and you’re in this place where the clouds are all cottony as they glide across an achingly blue sky. Kinda...
There’s A Screenwriter On My Couch
UNITED STATES—That June, I got off the Tijuana-downtown Los Angeles bus with one huge suitcase and moseyed over to the house on Nadeau Drive...
Riot On The Southwest Chief (7)
UNITED STATES—“Eee ha!” shouted Gloria as Rusty’s red pickup sped over stretches of what had once been Route 66. “We’re bringing relief and salvation...
Riot On The Southwest Chief (4)
UNITED STATES—Lee stood up from the seat and yawned. Good god, the man was big as a polar bear. He put the faded baseball...
My Country
UNITED STATES—After being a prisoner in California for more years than I care to remember, I find myself on the road to Idaho. Outside...
Crazy Busy
UNITED STATES—A Nigerian gentleman in Mid-City once made the astute observation, “When people in America say they’re busy, it means they’re making money.” Take...
Barking Dogs
UNITED STATES—Dogs lower blood pressure. They can stand on their hind legs and make a goofy grin. I knew a screenwriter, oh so afflicted,...
An Amazing Man: Richard L. Bare
UNITED STATES—Hollywood is a story, it’s who you were, where you are, and what happened in between and who you met. Each journey is...
Suspicious
UNITED STATES—She was sitting at the very end of the walkway, face obscured by the yellow flowers and stringy leaves hanging down from the...
Prime Time (Part 2)
UNITED STATES— Jenny, who was minding the glutens, had been blissfully gluten free for more than a year. Her doctor had been treating her for...