William Zinsser once wrote, “Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.” The comment is especially true in the case of
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Up to this point I haven’t written much of anything about the hotel where we were staying. Punta Mita sits at the tip of a peninsula north of Puerto Vallarta in Nayarit. This stretch of land is pretty isolated. The advantages are that the guests can avoid the tequila-addled tourists found in the larger cities and enjoy some peace and quiet. The disadvantage is …
Blurring the lines between western post-rock and jazz, and African folk and trance, the prolific Dutch band The Ex have teamed up with Brass Unbound on the instantly infectious new 8-song LP Enormous Door.
There just seem to be too many kinds of monsters. Last month I told you about the…
At about two in the afternoon last Wednesday, a guy was murdered in the town of Woolwich…
I think the most compelling monsters are simply human beings (or creatures with human traits, especially human…
Andrew Lloyd Webber scared the hell out of me.
I was 4-year-old with an active imagination. My family was listening to the 1970 double-LP of the original Broadway cast version of Jesus Christ Superstar on the Zenith Console stereo when the creepy orchestration and voices of the song The Crucifixion conjured up the Menja Monster.
If you grew up in the Tampa Bay area in the 1970’s, as I did, we had…
The average cold lasts 5-7 days; the flu can leave you feeling dragged out for a couple of weeks….
I parallel parked with, I thought, impressive efficiency, quickly getting out of the way of a pickup…
B2L2 continues to publish on a monthly schedule, but now the month’s posts will be published in…
1. The Alien There are so many great monster movies. Monsters from the deep. Monsters from outer…