2010: Year in Review

This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]

“The game is afoot, Watson …”

I’m very pleased that the contentious New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun is finally complete and out of the way – at least the substantive bulk of it; there has been talk of a fourth and final segment when we are ready to pull up stakes and leave Las Vegas for Los Angeles but I [...]

98

That’s the number of comments under my story at the online version of the Las Vegas Sun that were removed overnight (from 166) for being off-topic, abusive, and for personal attacks. Overnight I was forced to mark all three of my blogs (8763 Wonderland, Carver’s Dog, Bat Country) as “private” because one particularly virulent commenter — [...]

Early Reaction to “Homelessness and the Indignity of Hurtful Speech”

For the record, I would like to mention that the title of the third installment of my New Homeless series was provided by my editor, Tom Gorman, and was never even run by me — not that it’s a bad title but it’s not mine. I was very happy to note this evening that the [...]

Homelessness and the Indignity of Hurtful Speech

Part three of the New Homeless series for The Las Vegas Sun is now up and running and it is Miss L’s image at sunset that graces the front page for a change. Excerpt: Henry Miller notes that writers “begin to develop, to reveal their true personality, after passing the age of forty-five” and that [...]