Reality Check – RESURRECTING LENNY: In Praise of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & The Spirit of the Great Lenny Bruce James Campion December 19, 2018 Columns, Reality Check 3 I probably should have penned this piece last year after the first season of Amazon Prime’s magnificent series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel written and directed by the brilliant Amy Sherman-Palladino, whose work I...
Rock Reads: A Holiday Guide For The Rock ‘N’ Roll Literate James Campion December 12, 2018 Buzz, Features Looking for a celebration of music in words to stuff the stockings of the rock fan in your life? Boys in the Trees: A Memoir – Carly Simon (2018) With the elegant fierceness of a New...
Reality Check – GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH – [1924-2018] James Campion December 12, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “George Bush is guiltier than all of them.” Hunter S. Thompson, Portland, Oregon's First Congregational Church, 1988 A mostly ineffectual one-term president, whose political and persona...
Reality Check – THE RUSSIAN BANK PHASE – SUDDENLY WHITEWATER: Trump Scumbag Lawyer Spills Beans on Illegal Land Deals – Sound Familiar? James Campion December 5, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” &nb...
Reality Check – STAN LEE: 1922 – 2018 James Campion November 21, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “I resented the fact that some people thought comics were just for kids. I wanted comics to be for everybody, including people who’d read the Harvard classics, people who would read Shakespeare, Dickens. To me,...
Reality Check – Mid-Term Roundup: Women, Repudiation, Entrenchment & Reckoning James Campion November 14, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Lots of stuff happened on Nov. 6, 2018. This was the second time the current administration -- its polices, its tone, its corruption and investigations have had to face the voters since 2016, and t...
Reality Check – Readers Responses James Campion November 7, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Sorry to read about the distinguished gentleman, handsome fellow. (SALINGER {THE CAT} 2006 - 2018 – Issue: 8/8/18) Reminded me of one of my serial killers in the past: Mr. Bojangles. He was a polydactyl,...
Who’s That Eric Hutchinson Behind The Curtain? A Songsmith’s Journey into Modern Happiness James Campion October 31, 2018 Features, Interviews “Let’s forget this is New York, have fun and just play,” counsels a rather collected Eric Hutchinson to his band The Believers moments before they hit the stage at Sony Hall in early October. Not sure th...
Reality Check – Alt Right Underground – A Perspective: When Mailed Bombs Become Teachable Moments James Campion October 31, 2018 Columns, Reality Check I was reminded of a couple of things this week when word came that enemies of the Trump administration -- past political opponents, celebrities, old leftists and CNN -- received to what amounted to half-...
Reality Check – Thirty-Six Hours: The Nightmare of Legal Purgatory in the Island Tombs James Campion October 24, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Thirty-six hours. No water. None. No place to sleep. Well, steel benches. Fifty degrees with blowing ceiling fans in a 20-by-30-foot cinderblock room. Open, rusted, putr...
