Ron BelBruno

Don't give up. You''re better off without the bobble heads at MSNOW OR LATER or whatever they're calling it this week. They've lost their mission.

Not that I know this first hand, or anything.

He's such a pathetic school marm in a suit.

Brian Wilson's music buoyed me during the roughest period of my life--Pet Sounds specifically. Even as a child, I felt his music's longing and melancholy. I had the honor of interviewing him (2000), when I was at Yahoo Internet Life. RIP, Brian. #brianwilson #petsounds #genius #legend

who's the grieving drag queen dressed as a nun next to him?

STRONG CONNECTIONS ... I saw this mid 70s Trimline phone in a vintage shop and it followed me the 12 miles home. When I saw it, I reconnected with a lot of dialogue, happy, sad, angry, pensive, and decided that $45 was a good price to pay for writing inspiration. Have you had an inanimate muse?

Speed Racer

Yeah, you just have to bring that energy to anything you write, regardless of genre, I guess. I'm happy to escape into it.

HAD ENOUGH OF BOZOS for a lifetime.

I got back to the very same thing, today. Fiction beats reality more than ever.

No further comment necessary.

I'M NOT SURE I've ever watched a president so deftly decimate 250 years of diplomacy. The man from Ukraine has fought a war on the streets of his country. The other two? The only war they've fought is the conflict of being half-men trying to be whole men. Both lost today.

It's a lazy way to describe something.

The best Christmas tree ornaments tell a story. Here, Dieter, who we found in Berlin earlier this year, gets elf-charmed while hanging out on a lazy Saturday afternoon.