Raconteur Report

During my sojourn in the Marine Corps, I saw in vivid cammie green the demonstration of many valuable life lessons. Some of the most valuabl...

College is obviously a time of learning and serious study. But studies of primates have repeatedly demonstrated that the higher the intellig...

From my prior post, please don't think I'm biased. I like cats too. Especially with mustard and relish. (Just a little humor to torq...

I don't dislike dogs, but I've never owned one, and was not raised with one as a family pet. Frankly, I see this as no fault, much a...

It was a Saturday afternoon in spring, late but still daylight outside, and the usual sports fare on the tube. EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee! Fr...

It never rains in California, except when it pours. For days. During one of those interminable bouts of November downpour, one of my best hi...

I'm early for this one. I swore I'd tell stories until I ran out of them before I turned my attentions to either politics or religio...

The Actual "Bear", himself, in his earlier work. We're sitting around outside the set for the day, and one of our co-stars is ...

Same day, later that night. Arnie's gone. Vanessa's gone. Now it's just the shots and stunts and effects. As I said, we were...

I get a call to work on something called Eraser . At the time, "Erasure" was working, so I thought maybe it was a music video or s...

{Caveat: This isn’t anecdotal. I saw the newspaper article, with pictures, of the incident in question.} Back in the day, shortly after bidd...

I attended a small liberal arts college in Southern California, and the dorms were coed in the sense that one floor was inhabited by men, an...

Once upon a time back in the day, I was in day care. It was private, back in the days before government got involved and turned it into the ...

Writers frequently complain about writer's block as "the tyranny of the blank page." Conversely, I've never been very ade...