Here on Earth, we life-forms don’t eat dirt. We eat one another. On this savage planet, the animal imperative is to eat, spawn, die— to enforce your DNA against all others, to increase your life-force type, and put it in control. The red ants and black ants are perfect examples of the...

The shotgun feels cold in your hand. The extended mag tube is heavy, leaded alternately with slugs and buck. The late summer sun is going down and the light is fading fast. You move slowly through the deep shadows, and you drop into a gully to watch and listen. Beer cans and trash. Mud. Meth waste....

As a lifelong fan of RUNAWAY TRAIN, I listened to Mr Konchalovski in fascination, as he told me his film logic axiom over dinner, at the home of a friend, another director. We talked of many things, but he emphasized this— if a person would like to spend their life making movies, you need first...

The Academy Awards are coming up fast, again. For you out there who aspire to write movies, let’s look at the backbone of film creation. As a member of the Writer’s Guild West, Erudio voted in the WGA awards for best screenplay. Top of my list? UP IN THE AIR, PRECIOUS, HURT LOCKER. Each...

Do you want to change the world? Do you wonder why politicians don’t make the changes you see that seem so urgent, so obvious— the changes you believe desperately need to be made? Then maybe you should dive into the political process, and fight for those changes yourself. But, you say,...

Hardly more than a century ago, the “Industrial Revolution” ate workers. Its mines crushed them, its mills incinerated them, its machines shredded them. Men, women, children alike, were need in vast numbers to feed the new machine world with raw materials that machines turned into goods....

Today we look at a young poet, an emerging artist of words. Yes, I said “Poet.” Poet? One who makes rhymes? Can this be a way of life? Can anyone make a living writing poetry? Or is it solely for pure personal satisfaction? Are poems still relevant? Our childhood begins with rhymes,...

You play piano, guitar, you sing, you compose music, you make music. And when you make music, you feel free. Music is an immortal secret language— like a purifying bath for your soul, cleansing away the chaos of everyday life. And, even as a child, music was your inner voice. It was as if...

They wanted to quit. They couldn’t. They tried, dear God, they tried so hard to quit, but the withdrawal symptoms broke them, like a visit to hell. They needed therapy, professional help that might have saved them. But they didn’t find it. So they self-medicated, they used drugs to...

Want an essential high-demand profession? Want to be a key officer in the World Capitalist system? Then answer this quick question— what is the huge key advantage that has made Wal-Mart the world’s biggest retailer? Why are their stocks high and prices low? Give up? Wal-Mart’s Logisticians...