Thomas Sullivan: BREAST-FED BRAINS vs. NOITANIGAMI

Think back.  Way back.  Lying-in-your-bassinet back.  What kind of formula were you raised on?  No-no…I don’t mean breast milk/formula.  I mean how was your life orchestrated?  Dr. Spock baby?  Schedules/organization/chaos/mommy-was-on-Valium?  Meat and potatoes lifestyle?  (Dunno…I’ve repressed all that)?  The answer is very important to your imagination and creativity.  No question, creativity can either be given [...]

Thomas Sullivan: SORTING OUT GERONIMO IN EAST MUNGLEOPOLIS

Wazzup, World?  Goin’ for the jugular here.  This month’s column is gonna lay out the case for:  What You Should Spend Your Hard-Earned Moolah and Precious Time Reading.  Too glib?  Okay…rephrase. This month’s column is:  A Discussion of the Best and Worst Genres.  Too blunt?  No problem…upgrade to:  A Polemic on the “A Priori” Attributes [...]

Thomas Sullivan: OF SILVER SOULS AND CAROUSELS

Like some infamous interrogation room, the designation “Q&A” is starting to take on the ring of doom for me.  I know I’ve been weaseling away from my prior commitment to use that format, but please do not doubt that I am exceedingly grateful for your questions and your interest.  No one could have more sensitive [...]

Thomas Sullivan: SEGAMI RORRIM

If something has to be kept secret, it must be true.  Secrets are self-proving.  Lies are loud and wear red hats, e.g. Santa Claus.  Okay, I’m being a tad glib here.  I do not mean that only secrets are true or that all red hats – i.e. loud proclamations — are lies (your red hat [...]

Thomas Sullivan: FATE, DESTINY, SERENDIPITY, KARMA, KISMET AND STAR-CROSSED IRONIES & COINCIDENCES

As one control freak to another…  Uh-oh, way to go, Sully.  You’ve alienated your entire readership already.  But the essential thing about being human – about being anything with a pulse and choices – is trying to control one’s living conditions to make them beneficial to one’s self, isn’t it?  AKA survival.  Like I was [...]

Thomas Sullivan: SEX & ROMANCE, BORING BINGES, and WHY MOSQUITOES SHOULDN’T HAVE GUN PERMITS

The Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition hisself – Torquemada – has nothin’ on you guys!  What a bonanza of questions and comments came in from around the globe last month in response to the Q. & A. format.  Probing, intelligent, deep and even beastly stuff – and damn near Truth or Dare.  You’re having [...]

Thomas Sullivan: PANNING GOLD, FREEDOM, & THE GREAT SHOPPING CART FIASCO

Help…I have locked myself in the bathroom with a loaded pistol and I don’t know how much time I have left before I pull the trigger.  I know this is where I have to be now.  It’s a desperate move, but I am desperate.  I saw the mosquito fly in here, and if I don’t [...]

Thomas Sullivan: FINDING WOR(L)DS

Hey, you want to bug out with me?  You know, ditch this horrible, awful agony of trying to create characters, plots and settings?  I’ll tell you a secret.  When your imagination goes stale, you don’t have to put it to bed until it recovers.  In fact, that may be the worst – and certainly the [...]

Thomas Sullivan: LION LUNGS, DEMENTIA DOG & THE KILLER GARAGE DOOR

Maybe I’ll write humor today, you decide.

It is 4:41 AM and your sawdust-for-brains next door neighbor has just “unleashed” Lion Lungs – the hyper barking pooch – for his pre-dawn serenade.  Your spouse slumbers next to you, and if you move to the computer downstairs, there is a good chance you’ll wake the baby.  Better [...]

Thomas Sullivan: LION LUNGS, DEMENTIA DOG & THE KILLER GARAGE DOOR

Maybe I’ll write humor today, you decide.

It is 4:41 AM and your sawdust-for-brains next door neighbor has just “unleashed” Lion Lungs – the hyper barking pooch – for his pre-dawn serenade.  Your spouse slumbers next to you, and if you move to the computer downstairs, there is a good chance you’ll wake the baby.  Better [...]