Category: Art and Culture

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?

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

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