All waiters and waitresses loathe vegetarians. They come in and announce, "I'm a VEGETARIAN", their superior faces pale and pasty. They make unreasonable demands. Leave out this ingredient. Put in that herb. "You don't charge, extra for that, do you?" they ask. And smile their wa...

I was there because I heard a rumour got out that Leonard Cohen had actually entered a poem in the poetry contest (the second one) annoymously. Later, I read every poem to see if one of them seemed like something he would write. None of them seemed to be in his "style." But who knows. I wo...

Remember this blast from the past? "On the way home that evening [always praying for a long life for Leonard ~ I'll go with Kim's predicted lifespan], I imagined such a scenario, but in the extreme, for the congealed principle of the issue. The image I had was of him being assisted onto the sta...