Juanito got me started with the practical practice of making donations to the African Wildlife Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. He and I did a lot to help the city recycling program in Charleston, South Carolina. But all our efforts are futile if people still twist the concept of a green…

Bart Simpson's t-shirt sales episode comes to mind. Didn't he have a t-shirt that read "Down with Homework" and then it evolved into a whole line of shirts, with "Sucking sucks" and "This shirt sucks" and the meta-message was supposed to be the ultimate destination of his campaign for telling everything that it sucks…

Peary is a good writer, and yes he was significant for me in junior high before the internet took over and swallowed the need for books. He touted the performance of Wesley Snipes in New Jack City as the best performance of the year, 1991, iirc. Can't say why, but that article in his Oscars revisions opened up a…