When you're bored, television just seems better somehow. I can remember watching the Dean Martin Western "Five Card Stud" once...

(Kind of a special entry. I was privileged to receive an advance review copy of a new thriller from Joseph Finder. Watch for it May 16.) Cor...

For the fun of it, I decided to enter the ComingSoon.com poster contest for Stay Alive , a teen horror film that looks not bad in the trail...

I found some of my G.I. Joe photo efforts from back in the day. I'm afraid the scan is about as sharp as I could get it. As I mentioned ...

Once upon a time, Christine helped plan a women's seminar featuring a relationship speaker. He noted different people have different ran...

Monty--the senior male cat in our household that's now full of cats (4)--has had a rough week. The vet called it a fever of unknown orig...

I've received a lot of nice notes from G.I. Joe enthusiasts since my mention of the G.I. Joe photo stories. It's opened the door for...

When I was a kid, Hasbro had a G.I. Joe club with a membership magazine and a certificate and other cool stuff related to the G.I. Joe toy s...

Cloudy Day 1 , originally uploaded by willysid . I did not quite capture the cloud formations behind my office the way I'd hope...

Today is literally the day the music died : Feb. 3, 1959 was the day The Winter Dance Party came to an end with the crash of a flight that k...

Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) who has been named Humane Legislator of the Year by the Humane Society of the United States for legislation he ...

I feel bad when the search engines lead people astray and they land here when they were actually looking for other things. When I mention so...

Martha Stewart is hosting and narrating one of the scariest videos I've seen in a while. Hostel and Wolf Creek have nothing on the shi...

This was a long time ago. I'd just had a conversation with someone about how comedy and horror never mixed well, and we'd cited nume...

Dr. Who is coming to America , according to the BBC and The Sci Fi Channel. Looks like he'll be landing the Tardis where the Battlesta...

I opened an e-mail from my friend Wayne and was a little alarmed at first glance. It looks quite real, doesn't it? Actually, as the sign...

Ironically, I've been assigned to find a good customer service video. I guess it's because I'm usually unhappy when I don't ...

I resolve to take my time in 2006. I'm not talking about just slowing down, smelling the roses and seeking solace in peaceful silence. I...

The intimate New Year's dinner Christine and I had planned at an elegant little restaurant went a bit awry. We arrived to find they were...

I loooove the Universal monsters, Dracula, the Frankenstein Monsters, the Wolf man et al. (The Creature from the Black Lagoon, not so much) ...