Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.