Archive

I have written over 100 essays, short stories, and funny emails that you can read for free in this blog.

• My screenplay, Pajama Boy, is an Official Selection…
• Dexterdaily.com published my column on Dexter: New Blood
• Are you a procrastinator?
• Writing Dialogue with Subtext: La La Land (2016)
• My play “Banned” was performed in Ohio
• The Troll Who Wanted To Build A Wall: A Fable
• The Real Meaning of “Judge Not”
• The Cat that Suffered from Dogphobia: A Short Story
• Failure to Launch: The Graduate (1967)
• Why Rey is a Mary Sue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• Why Daylight Saving Time is Bad
• Writing Dialogue with Subtext: Casablanca (1942):
• Vulture Culture – A poem
• The Tweeter Strikes Back – A poem
• The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron: Scansion
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Scansion
• The Hanging – A poem
• The Rehearsal – A poem
• Intellectual Yet Idiot: The Thing from Another World (1951)
• The Virtue of Goodness: All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
• Death from Candy
• The Donkey King and Other Stories
• Letters from a Madman
• The Sasquatch Who Spoke His Mind
• I want to move to Mexico
• Three Ways to Improve Employee Morale
• I Have Toxic Masculinity!
• Ontario’s Green Energy Disaster
• Why I Need “Quiet Time” Each Morning
• Why Homework Should Be Banned
• Why I Love “Useless” University Courses
• Why You Shouldn’t Shake Anyone’s Hand
• Gun Free Zone Signs Don’t Work
• The Power of Female Beauty: Cinderella (2015)
• Three Reasons Why I Love Getting the Flu
• The Liar: A Fable
• The Neighbour Who Played Loud Music
• The Big Black Dog: A Fable
• The Number-One Reason for Weight Gain
• The Dragon Egg: A Fable
• The Donkey King: A Political Fable
• Raise the Legal Age for Marijuana
• The Man Who Repelled Women with Cologne
• The Idealistic Dreamer: Risking Everything with No Plan B
• Seven Symptoms of Mania: Homeland “The Vest” (2011)
• The Moral Argument Against Fragranced Products
• Why Captured Terrorists Can Be Detained Indefinitely
• Two Reasons Why I Can’t Marry You
• Banning Best Friends at School
• Driving the Devil out of Detroit
• A Shocking Stay at a Hawaiian Resort
• A Dinner Reservation for a Narcissist
• The Positive and Negative Uses of Stigmatization
• Three Reasons to Delay Sex Until Marriage: The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
• The Pig Who Loved Mud Wrestling: A Fable
• The Consequences of Acting on Impulse: Psycho (1960)
• The Troll Who Went To War: A Fable
• Illegal Immigration and the Risk to Public Health: Panic in the Streets (1950)
• Three Traits of a Naive Person: The Brides of Dracula (1960)
• The Doctrine of Proportionality: Star Trek “Balance of Terror”
• The Culture of a Vampire: A Fairy Tale
• The Three Lazy Pigs: A Fable
• How the Palestinian Authority Encourages Terrorism
• The Sheep Who Refused To Fight: A Fable
• The Rabbit that Wasn’t Right in the Head: A Fable
• The Greedy Goose that Laid Golden Eggs: A Fable
• Why a Woman Won’t Marry an Idle Man: Hands Across the Table (1935)
• Shunning Someone You Disagree With
• How Trust is Restored: The Awful Truth (1937)
• The Dangers of Casual Sex: It Follows (2014)
• What Causes Sexual Orientation: Nature and Nurture
• Love, But Not Marriage: A Short Story
• Three Traits of Judgmental People
• The Wolf Who Believed He Was A Sheep: A Fable
• Two Reasons Why ISIS Practices Beheading
• The Philosophy of Non-Attachment: Heat (1995)
• The Age of Consent: The Deep End (2001)
• Three Reasons Why Women Have An Affair: The Letter (1940)
• The Man Who Flipped a Coin: A Short Story
• Similarity Attraction Hypothesis: Griff the Invisible (2010)
• When Mass Surveillance is Necessary: The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Knight Errant and the Royal Maiden: Monsters (2010)
• Why a Higher Minimum Wage Can Result in a Lower Unemployment Rate
• The Root Cause of Contempt: The Gift (2015)
• How a $15 Minimum Wage Creates Winners and Losers
• Why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is a not a Moderate
• Three Principles in Problem Solving: World War Z (2013)
• Three Aspects of Obsessive Love: Mad Love (1935)
• The Doctrine of Jihad: Dracula Untold (2014)
• George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, and Yellowcake: Fair Game (2010)
• The Assassination of a President: The Hunger Games Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
• Why the Devil is the Destroying Angel
• Three Reasons Why Young Women Love Older Men: Dead Calm (1989)
• The Rule of Law: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• To Honor vs. Dishonor: Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
• Why the Unemployment Rate is not the Real Unemployment Rate
• The Moral and Ethical Argument Against Multi-Level Marketing
• The Byronic Hero: Twilight (2008)
• What it Means to be Judgmental: Separate Tables (1958)
• Why a Woman Needs a Man: Jurassic World (2015)
• The Ancient Practice of Blood Revenge: Underworld (2003)
• The Nature of Evil: Touch of Evil (1958)
• The Rules of War: Lone Survivor (2013)
• The Root Cause of Racial Prejudice: Crash (2004)
• The Policy of Appeasement: Glorious 39 (2009)
• The Error of Presumption: Noah (2014)
• Obsession with Perfection: Black Swan (2010)
• When War is Justified: The Hunger Games Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
• The Christian Knight: Trollhunter (2010)
• A Warning to School Bullies: Carrie (2013)
• The Ethics of Consequentialism: On Dangerous Ground (1951)
• The Absurd Nature of of Greed: Goldfinger (1964)
• Three Things You Need to Perform an Exorcism: The Exorcist (1973)
• Obsessive Love: Romeo and Juliet (1968)
• The Charming Psychopath: A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
• How A Murderer Gains Our Sympathy: Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”
• A Psychotic Episode: The Twilight Zone “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
• Unhealthy Dependency: L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz
• Why Older Men and Younger Women Fall in Love: The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
• The Pursuit of a False Dream: Scarlet Street (1945)
• The Madness of Appeasement: Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• Why Women Love Bad Boys: Born to Kill (1947)
• The Devil Incarnate: Horror of Dracula (1958)
• The Femme Fatale: Out of the Past (1947)
• Individualism vs. Communism: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Four Factors in Paranoia: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• How Cartels Create Shortages: The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
• Demon-Human Hybrids: Village of the Damned (1960)
• The Self-Made Psychopath: Cape Fear (1962)