The Toy Cannon

This site was pretty cool, but it is also pretty dead! I'm starting a new one: joedemartino.wordpress.com You should check it out in...

NASA, we need to have a talk. Listen, I know you’ve had a pretty good run so far. That whole Apollo program? That was great.  It might be ...

In yet another example of how our minds scatter the particulars of our memories, it turns out that my recollection of my grandmother raising...

Christopher Hitchens has cancer. His particular kind manifested itself in his esophagus, which is unsurprising given his near-legendary repu...

I promise this isn’t a personal story. Not entirely. My grandmother died on a weekday morning in the summer of 2006, the victim of a cance...

Cameras are every damn where these days, a consequence of the long, slow march we’ve made toward eliminating the basic concept of privacy. S...

Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski are standing by their car on the side of a desert road. The car is a beat-up Chevy right out of one of thos...