My email Inbox has been overflowing with epistles concerning my name. Approximately 50 percent of them are from other people who call themselves “Tom Collins.” They present irate demands that I stop using “their” name or else they will sue me, attack my Web site, find my residence and firebomb it, track me down like… Continue reading What’s in a Name?
Category: Tom’s Life and Times
Requiem for Channel 92
Since I seriously doubt anyone else will, I here duly note the passing of Public Access Channel 92 in Montgomery County, Maryland. It wasn’t around long, and probably suffered from the cable company’s benign neglect – they never, for example, put it in their cable guide channel listings. Nevertheless, Channel 92 offered, I am told,… Continue reading Requiem for Channel 92
Tom Earns a Bottle of Champagne
A trio of ginks from the one of the big DC think tanks had just left. It took me nearly half an hour to convince them to leave because their mission was hopeless – I don’t work for free, no matter how prestigious the client is. As a matter of fact, it seems to me… Continue reading Tom Earns a Bottle of Champagne
The Male Man’s Predicament
No sooner had I returned home from the office and ensconced myself on the couch to start the weekend with an 18 year old single malt scotch than the doorbell rang. It was Herb, my next door neighbor. He’s the owner of four upscale boutiques in Chevy Chase, Tyson’s Corner, White Flint and Montgomery Mall. … Continue reading The Male Man’s Predicament
Beauty is in the Wallet of the Stockholder
Shortly before Christmas, as you, dear reader, may have heard, another beauty pageant scandal rocked the nation. I must say that I have always felt sorry for beauty pageant contestants, whether driven by their own warped, childish desires and tastes, or the warped, childish desires and tastes of their parents. In either case, their lives… Continue reading Beauty is in the Wallet of the Stockholder