agriculture
moving to larkfarm
greatest test of character
favorite animal
wise llamas
farming complements technology
art
dental art vs. science
the case for car art
comic books' enduring appeal
designing movie posters
selling t-shirts online
inside jon sarkin's head
coming out of a coma, becoming an artist
wagner in pictures/cars as canvas
rent is theft/oddstock
burning man festival precautions
automobiles
commuter survival skills
old vs. new vw beetles
the first car he ever loved
not the worst polluters
how the new 'hybrid' cars work
future of hydrogen fuel-cell power
books
"the plot to get bill gates"
the "bleeding edge" tour
finding your "inner bitch"
self-help books
"the president's astrologer"
the best book he's never read
how "city of quartz" changed his mind
do-it-yourself projects
building your own home
when to hire someone else
savings on building home yourself
celebrity encounters
meeting clint eastwood
the appeal of "win ben stein's money"
meeting cast of "alive"
health
coping with juvenile dermatomyositis
how flouridation protects teeth
coping with multiple sclerosis
pain relief
overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome
hobbies
keeping bees
digging in privies
trainhopping
why karaoke is cool
humor
death to all cheerleaders
3 ways cats superior to girlfriends
disinventing cellphones
driving in manhattan
weirdest robbery
kids aren't funny
school fundraiser nightmares
ban cub scouts!
getting into standup
getting out of a jam
joke that fell flat
putting a heckler in his place
what he won't do for a laugh
the future
how the world will see him
taking risks and self-employment
journalism
covering a small-town scandal
why to get into the news biz
nightmares of a movieline intern
mexican newspapers, tv, radio
reporters getting it wrong
working at a university publications office
trials of an entertainment editor
music critic on-the-job hazards
fretting over the news biz
cockroach vs. journalist
50 years in newsrooms
the kids are all right
finest editor he ever worked for
a hot story dropped in his lap
reporting on the radio
covering columbine online
breaking news on the Web
not just a young person's game
learn html before going to dot-coms
what's good about the news biz
what print can't do but online can
l.a. media landscape
publications' survival
hollywood survival
his first big story
superman's influence
newsroom humor
appeal of radio work
making friends in belize
locales
teotihuacan, mexico, and glastonbury tor, england
antiquity in the UK
mexican vs. egyptian pyramids
honest hotel workers in China
cancun, mexico, realities & folklore
renaissance in washington, d.c.
toronto
san francisco bay area (living & dining)
silicon valley vs. indiana
moving from l.a. to new york
l.a. vs. the southern u.s.
vermont
american truck driver in japan
censorship in australia
cool sights in murfreesboro, tenn.
youngstown, ohio
seattle and vermont
savannah, ga.
lyle lovett in peoria
indiana vs. everywhere else
the gateway arch, st. louis
living in germany, what he misses in u.s.
u.s. culture in europe
queens vs. manhattan
fort bragg, calif.
wine country/snobbery
prague in the '90s
living cheaply in l.a.
austin vs. s.f. bay area
austin bar recommendation
boston vs. new york
only in silicon valley
coming to u.s. from ireland
shawnee national forest
culture shock in california, vs. japan & korea
scary things about japan
the dog market
strange scenes in berkeley
atlanta
marketing
good signs and bad signs
human nature and middle ground
marketing's evil tricks
focus groups
how ads impact students
marriage
making it last
how he knew she was "the one"
memories
bicycling with dad
world war II
going to the drive-in
she's an "alien"
amazing stories at the library
high school football coaching
economizing in the depression
the day roosevelt died
camping in a large catholic family
european misadventures
favorite car
mom raised 7 kids
telemarketing nightmares
stanford band
military
thoughts of a missile silo officer
duty in the silo
upgrading GPS satellites
why stay in the air force
keeping a can-do attitude
surviving marine corps boot camp
myths of the corps
don't ask don't tell don't work
not exactly a meritocracy
doing computers with the u.s. air force
military radio
movies
nuclear war myths debunked
dvd advantages
favorite movie cliches
self-made movies
director of photography's job
great cinematographers
setting up a shot
tools for making digital movies
digital film editing
ethics of digital film
why movie critics are different
woman's perspective on movies
disliked "eyes wide shut"
oscars vs. best pictures
three wishes for the movie industry
movie turn-offs
great character actors
on video, the story matters
appeal of "evil dead"
why so many sci-fi books, so few sci-fi movies
sci-fi time travel
music
merle haggard's appeal
why kids wigged out at Woodstock '99
rock vs. the blues
see b.b. king
jonathan richman
best living guitarist
suitable exile for sammy hagar
elvis' movie career
"i need you so" by elvis
why rock bands exist
norman greenbaum deserves more fame
newspapers
small-town newspapering
denver war story
l.a. times staples center controversy
already dead
funny newsroom story
online communities
meeting in real life
what works online but doesn't work in rl
meet the trivians
online diaries
avoiding conflicts
who reads them
online romance
online soap opera
long-distance love it work
finding & keeping
don't miss your chance
parenting
son's favorite stories about dad
a father's greatest gift
raising a developmentally disabled child
a baby daughter's influence
family values
toddler just like dear old dad
mom's first day home with new baby
one-year-old acting like his old man
bratty children of affluence
being a father-to-be
philosophy
the value of living in the country
a nihilist recants
discovering astrology
becoming an existentialist
life and death traumas
visits from beyond
being original
tenured radicals
why kids do drugs
anarchy and order
real vs. manufactured counterculture
what guys could learn in women's studies
corn best plant species of the millennium
pizzaro favorite conquistador
cynicism as laziness
politics
reform in mexico
us-mexico border policy
race in chicago
left-coast liberalism
oakland and jerry brown
the press and john mccain
insanity on the campaign trail
the fringe candidates
sources of cynicism and hope
american constitutional ammendments
gun-toting vegetarians
normal people and guns
what the libertarians need to do to win
religion
unitarian universalism
inscrutable rituals
nature of the soul
fundamentalism
technology and religion
science
what's great about plastic
a dentist's complaint
befriending the reptiles
unseen creatures
rattlesnake precautions
demystifying pit vipers
biodiversity in the prairie
sex
near-sex experiences
technology
GPS satellite signals, military and civilian
why he didn't become an engineer
tech in europe
high-speed web access
top houston tech firm
most violent videogame
the market for videogame violence
web's evolution
power of web radio
limits of web radio
why y2k was a yawner
content is hard
early game programming
wireless future
the state of the software industry
java est mort. vive la java.
what sun can do to keep java going
teens
girls and tv
teen motherhood
white kids and gangsta rap
kids and advertising
littleton aftermath
perils of marrying young
discouraging kids from growing up
wish school had taught her
being a teen in the '40s
an amazing teen-aged gambit
television
writing the perfect Star Trek series
the simpsons
simpsons failings
dragnet in the '50s
earliest tv memories
tv an easy target
travel
going solo
coincidences
beating the post-vacation blues
ideal trip to the roof of the world
weblogs
appeal/limits
writers
sci-fi
author jessamyn west
meeting jared diamond, "guns, germs and steel"
writing
personal narrative online
publishing without an agent
starting a novel
drudgery
writing about the family
getting syndicated
what not to write about
great american novel needs a rewrite
why write for free
finding a literary agent