Alter Egos

Who Else Am I?

There’s a lot about Stephen A. Schrum on this site, but I thought I’d introduce you to my other personalities…


Too Hard—Or Not Hard Enough?

I received the following messages on Telegram, the second within minutes of the first, which prompts my question: are they trying too hard to recruit victims, or are they not trying hard enough, by not noticing duplicate messages? Or are they all AI bots and my question’s moot… In any case, for your entertainment: By…

Missing From The Odyssey

So I saw The Odyssey. My first reaction is: why were people on the conservative right so triggered by this film? Because it had a  trans actor? How would we even know this? Perhaps more importantly: Why would we care? And as far as an African-American woman playing Helen of Troy, she had so little…

Please Don’t Hand Me Your Trash

What is it about women who hand me their trash? Do all women do this? Do men ever do this? To explain: my late wife would do this all the time; she had some item or items of trash and, rather than walk them to a receptacle, would hand them over to me. And not…