You know, I never wrote about the New York City Opera's Don Giovanni, which I attended last weekend. -First, the renovations. The David Koch Theater, which I keep thinking of as the New York State Theater because name changes rarely sink in...

Probability of getting a conviction should not be the standard by which we decide whether military tribunals are the measure of American justice.

Ok, GI Joe, my last yuletide fandom. So the thing about GI Joe is that I read the comic in the early 90s, when the comic was lame as hell. The Cold War had ended and the whole GI Joe vs. Cobra thing had stopped making sense. There were plots about...

What moves me in the Marriage of Figaro: 1)The music. Duh, but let's go beyond the duh. The Overture is of course astounding. Dramatic, fiery, moving, intensely memorable. We all know that I'm obsessed with the East Village Opera Company's...

I may have mentioned that I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year. Last year, I ended up with 26,000 words in my Wacky Stealth Ninja novel. This year, I'm writing a novel set entirely in a traffic jam. It's going quite well. 18,000+ words so far, some...