Foreword by Stan Lerner: Edgar Allan Poe was finally given a funeral befitting one of the greatest writers to have ever lived—a debt of gratitude is owed to the city of Baltimore for this. Edgar Allan Poe and I share January 19th as a birthday and it is the poem below that he wrote just [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Love Flight
I woke up
before the sun.
But I was not the first;
my brother saw to that.
Our clothes
in the closet stared at us.
In the distance a man
and women yelled.
Muffled by the door
we couldn’t tell who it was.
But it didn’t matter
because we knew.
I’m grown now
and married over twenty years.
Still I remember
those sleepless nights.
We would wake up
before the sun.
But we [...]
HOLLYWOOD – A LOVE AFFAIR
The LA Times recently published a piece that pronounced the recent rash of Hollywood Executives to be shown the door the best slasher story in years. The LA Times of course left out the second best slasher story, that being all of the slashing that went on at the LA Times, but that would be [...]
An Education – Movie Review
As the school bell rings the start of another day, let me say this – AN EDUCATION is some kind of education!
Jenny is your average 16 year old schoolgirl. Attending a private school in the London suburb of Twickenham, her father pushes her to be the best, get those straight “A’s”, study, study, study, earn [...]
Go For It
Encountering a stranger who knows more about your life than he should is eerie. Well, I don’t mean to startle you, but I do know a private fact about you. I know that you are weighing up a decision in your life.
To be sure, I do not know any details. I have no idea whether [...]
DOWNTOWN OLIVER BROWN AN INTERSECTION OF LOCALS
1100 Wilshire had been an office building with no tenants before the most recent housing boom came along and made it a place that people who enjoy a sky-pool call home. Frankly, the pool at the Skyline, where I am currently borrowing a rich friend’s place, is probably the nicest in Downtown—I’ve used it once. [...]
IRAN
Several months ago I wrote in a downtownster blog that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons – unequivocally. I went on to say that sanctions would not cause the Iranian government to halt their development of a nuclear weapon. I did not mention the not so well kept secret of the uranium enrichment facility [...]
