My dad's motto was, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He had a thousand inspirational clichés, but that was the one that…
Posts published by “Doug Holland”
I was about twelve years old when Harold and Maude came out, in 1971. At that age I only went to the movies if my…
A youngish white guy comes into the diner. He's clean-cut and wearing a suit and tie, and he sits a few stools away from an…
I've known a lot of nuts in my life. What's the polite term? "Mentally ill"? "Emotionally disturbed"? "Has issues"? Nah, nuts. That's the catch-all word for…
Once a week I treat myself to breakfast at a diner. It used to be breakfast with my wife, but she died, damn it, so…
In the summer of 1992, a gun dealer named David Koresh sent a message to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). He asked…