PETER WING’S NEVERENDING (Recycled) DREAM CASTLE By Warren D. Jorgensen In 1968, Peter Wing brought Toni Simoncelli to the meadow overlooking his family’s 157-acre, century-old family farm and proposed to her. "He said," she remembers, "that he was going to build me a castle, and put me in it." "I did not." He says, lamely. […]
Supersymmetry
Instead of wasting billions of dollars building a hadron collider to find the elusive Higgins boson, physicists needed only to travel to the Village of Dobbs Ferry to find irrefutable evidence of supersymmetry. As predicted by political scientists, the controversy over the referendum to move the election from November to March has ended up […]
Hunter S. Thompson Exhibit
Yesterday I went to visit an art gallery in London that was exhibiting a collection of Hunter S. Thompson’s personal photographs. I found out about it while reading the free newspapers they stuff in your face when you walk into the tube station. The gallery was located about a mile from my flat, so I […]
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND More years ago than I admit to, while on a cross country skiing adventure, I came to the shore of a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Before me was an unbroken snow-field, untouched, unmarked, bathed in the soft red-gold glow cast by the last rays of […]
Is Anna Nicole Still Dead?
Does the media obession with Anna Nicole Smith really extend much further than getting ratings and giving them the best excuse to splash cleavage on TV since the Tara Connors rehab story? I’m conflicted on this now because there are so many real questions about her death that remain unsolved and just as many questions […]