Con Games: Hell House Lives on in Colorado
Just when you thought it was safe to go out—or Halloween, at least—consider the news that the hell business has never been better in the great state of Colorado. Never mind the [...]
CON GAMES: Military-Industrial Complex @ 50
I can't tell you how, and I can't tell you why, and I can't tell you where, but I can tell you that I spent an exceedingly comfortable evening having cocktails in the company of [...]
CON GAMES: I’m Allergic To New England
I am now thankfully at the tail end of a trip from hell through New England -- and no, it was not because of the godawful BoSawx fans now popping up like bowling [...]
CON GAMES: Goodbye Blank Page, Hello Writing 2.0
A Con Games Column I feel lucky because I did most of my writing before artificial intelligence (AI) became the Headless Horseman heedless of humankind. Pre-Chatbot, the ink-stained wretch had no choice but to write [...]
CON GAMES: O Canada, Of Thee We Sing
Why can't we be more like Canada? They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them [...]
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 [...]