Then goes to Sweaty’s Place to get drunk “So we issue these bonds, see?!” “Bonds???” Sitting in his chief editor’s chair, Bret Boner has been staring ahead, ostensibly at his…

“Power is being able to ruin people, to ruin their careers and their reputations and their personal relationships” – Robert Caro, from “The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall…

The Carnage Begins “I canna believe,” The incensed Highlander Slob is saying to a mortified Sweaty, “that you dunna do nothin’ ta that li’l squeakin’ oopstartin’ runt.” Sweaty’s scarecrow eyes…

A brief interlude ahead of Part 3 Peering through the blur of mayhem accelerating its rings around and around the inside of Sweaty’s Place, Andrew Plumb now notices a figure…

No comment The door out of Sweaty’s Place will not open, even though it has not been locked. The pandemonium has been reduced to one man chasing 15 with a…

After the movie, Jack Step thinks maybe he’ll go to Kansas The stage increases to monstrous dimensions. A plush, red-seated theater constructs itself, the rows receding as far as the…

At the end of this piece, he contemplates portrayals of power and evil for his next movie review The reason The Hunched Cornish won’t know I’ve re-abducted Tango Baby from…

And Batman – “The Dark Knight Rises” What is it we imagine when we try to envision evil, define it, encapsulate its essence in a few words, give it a…

Steve Kowalski writes about something he doesn’t understand I really don’t understand what the point of all this is or what I’m doing here. I don’t understand why I couldn’t…

The Half-Guinea starts in with his damn jokes I don’t know what John Smith is up to, sitting back there and placing this Kowalski character between us. It’s like he’s…