Scribbling notes in red pen on a yellow legal pad to keep up with the judge’s hallucinations, the psychiatrist grimaced. Your visions don’t seem to be going away any time soon, she said. Lackawanna County President Judge Stanley “Stash” Dombroski giggled. You’re a tulip. I’m a mint julip, he said. Yes, your honor, life’s a […]
Next time somebody tells you how important local journalism is to democracy I’d like you to think about my first and maybe last experience with President Joe Biden’s White House press team. In a Jan. 21 email I asked White House regional communication director Seth Schuster three simple questions. I wrote, “A recent story […]
Deep in thought, Zerelda talked to herself all the way to the gun store to buy bullet belts for shotgun shells. The Bugaboo was already getting her down. Zerelda simply wanted peace and good government. She didn’t want to kill anybody anymore. Nobody’s fooling me, she said, especially nobody walking around wearing a penis. None […]
Voted the Class of ’87’s most likely to succeed, best dancer and biggest bull-shitter respectively, Harry Davies, Gino Maraschino and Timmy Kelly loved high school where they pretty much did as they pleased. Easy living followed them into adulthood. Welsh, Italian, Irish and other Caucasian ethnic, working-class Scranton guys always knew somebody in a position […]
Bright, dark or psychedelic, the enso Zen circle in Japanese art contains everything and nothing. With gray hair growing down my back and a scraggly goatee touching my chest when I lower my chin, I envision myself painting enso as a laughing bent old man sitting seiza in the frigid attic of my home until […]
