Richard's Pretension

This morning a cat jumped on my head as I lay in bed. I glanced at the digital clock. It read 9:15. There is no particular time when I need ...

Well, maybe just a little something. Two reviews: ** ** Counting Down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs by Jim Beviglia   Most of us are dile...

  For the past year our macroscopic lives have been dominated by the microscopic: a pathogen that is not by most definitions “life,” though ...

Comic books are a common source for movies and TV shows primarily because they have a good track record of making money, but they have the s...

Winters in NJ don’t really have a normal. They vary wildly from one year to the next: sometimes autumn-like and snow-free, sometimes bone-ch...

Yesterday I walked into the kitchen pantry while my mind wandered as it often does. I suddenly realized I had forgotten for what I had gone ...

  I don’t write blogs for money, which is fortunate because like two-thirds of bloggers I don’t make any. OK, that’s not entirely true, but ...