The largest vessel ever to float, 800 feet long and displacing 45,000 tons, declared unsinkable by all who had seen it was gliding through the water with roughly 2,500 peacefully sleeping passengers. Then, suddenly it struck an iceberg on its starboard side, moving at 25 knots. The ship was 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland. The…

China sent us a balloon because it is the only damned thing missing from this circus.

There is no “i” in “team,” but there are two in “narcissist.”

Life without love is death. Love without life is necrophilia.

Melancholia hangs from me, slow and sticky like the sap from a tree. It is not quick, and I am less swift because it catches me, holding me fast, making me struggle to loosen its devastating grip. Tonight, it has me encased, mummified and immovable. I feel myself breathing, my heart beating, but to feel…

It was a song that started it. “Opal,” by Dave Stamey, and released in 1999. After hearing the song several times over the years, it was in 2010 that I began the hunt to find the couple that was the subject of the song. It would take me nearly four years. “Opal lives in Opal…

My idea of a Super Bowl is a self-cleaning toilet.

One week after being hired, she arrived on set. Carrie Fisher’s personality and charisma drew people to her, including me. It was the same day I learned I was to do a stunt with her because her double was busy getting her knee looked at in the emergency room of Seaside Hospital. Not only was…

The fuckers thought that because I was trying to avoid a fight, I was a coward, that my truck was old and beat up, that it wouldn’t run over rough country. They were wrong on both counts. It began at the Silver City Post Office with the seven Christian motorcycle gang members roaring up on…

Gen. Mark Milley’s last name is really Mi Lee.