Dear Reader, How’s our day going? Actually not that great, now that you ask. We’re still pretty hurt that you never wrote in to our how-was-*The Life of Pi*-not-a-hoax essay contest, and that hundred bucks is burning a whale of … Read More
Dear Wise Wendy, All of my friends have special skills. Some of my friends are great at driving, and other friends of mine have excellent body parts. What do I do to get a great skill? From, Skilless Dear Skilless, … Read More
I think I might love you. Sorry. I didn’t think so until last week. It was Friday. I was driving up I-87. I hadn’t thought of you all day, all week. The trees lining the highway had lost their leaves … Read More
There’s a pretty big leap between late-night homework and posing nude in some magazine. This is the story of how it happened. I was up late one night finishing a paper that I hadn’t had the wherewithal to start in … Read More
There are, I believe, four ways to approach the new film, “The Fourth Kind.” These four approaches are derived from J. Allen Hynek’s system of classification for alien encounters. According to Hynek, THE FIRST KIND is the sighting of a … Read More
In the Fall of 1930, Soviet architect Andrei Konstantinovich Burov was part of a team assembled by Moscow to visit Detroit’s state-of-the-art factories and to establish links with America’s leading industrialists…
