September 3, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      “Ghost lights” are the incandescents traditionally left on in darkened theaters, perhaps for safety though the superstition is more romantic, that the lit bulbs are for… Continue reading

August 27, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      Whether a teacher would have made the schwachkopf write “I will think before I tweet” 100 times on the blackboard; whether a mother might have put… Continue reading

August 20, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also appears on Facebook)      A small room in Brooklyn, an old, cheap-to-rent apartment not far from the docks where a seaman could find work but today so expensive a… Continue reading

August 13, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Fluorescent lights never fit cafes where a small corner table has a lady sitting without fidget, staring a bit into space, her hands holding tight a hot cup of… Continue reading

August 6, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Impoliteness and incivility are what they are these days, which generally means watered-down manners, some to the point of not being recognizable social behavior. It’s as if no one taught some… Continue reading

July 30, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      A “human” story, of which there have been too little in this age of orchestrated hate, prejudice, judgment and punishment. …      I have not shed a tear… Continue reading

July 23, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In the 1939 political comedy/drama, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” the naive but principled Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is supposed to be a do-no-harm bumpkin replacement for a deceased… Continue reading

July 16, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I talk too much, can be overly gregarious, especially when there is a seemingly captive audience. That’s rude, isn’t it? Yet most of us do not listen, at least not fully,… Continue reading

July 9, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A recent painting, “Abstract on a Red Wall,” came about because what I had on the canvas was not working — there was nothing there that told a story or suggested… Continue reading

July 2, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Of all that was so sorrowfully missing from the presidency on the line-of-duty deaths of five newspapermen and women in Maryland last week, the saddest was a moment of… Continue reading