CON GAMES: Getting Facebooked
A Con Games blast from the past: The virtual world can get a little too real some days, and one of those days came last week when a couple I know--one-half of the couple to [...]
CON GAMES: The Good Guy Gap In Movies, TV
EAST HAMPTON, NY—Sayonara. Out of here. Later for you, Dude. Put a fork in it, folks: the Good Guy in film and television is nowhere to be found in most media markets global and domestic. [...]
CON GAMES: Saints Be Praised
CON GAMES: SAINTS BE PRAISED By Michael Conniff Copyright (C) 2020 All Rights Reserved Time to break my favorite rules for writing fiction: never complain, never explain. This is the exception to those rules. [...]
CON GAMES: I’m Proud To Be An American From New York
By Michael Conniff I awoke this morning feeling like I’ve never felt before about being an American—and a New Yorker, in that order—and I wanted to share why I feel so proud. Oh say [...]
CON GAMES: Where Have You Gone, Rick Pitino?
Sports were in the air everywhere when I was a kid. My family lived on Stratton Road in New Rochelle, New York, for five years in the 1960s, next door to Claude Harmon, the golf [...]
CON GAMES: Code Friedman
CON GAMES: Code Friedman Huffington Post: May 25, 2011 Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen — and why [...]
CON GAMES: 40 Years In The Desert
By Michael Conniff I pride myself on never coming within a whisper of writer’s block but today I have no idea what to say—because today is my 40th anniversary of writing fiction. The point [...]
WRITE GOOD! Why ‘The Walking Dead’ Needs To ‘End This Thing’
If the showrunner for “The Walking Dead” on AMC were a major league coach or manager, the boo birds would have been calling for his neck and diehard fans in the stands would be wearing paper bags over their heads.