I wrote this a while back for epinions. I’ve discovered the movies I enjoy best these days are those that keep me a little perplexed about...

One of the most valuable online writing tools I've found is The Visual Thesarus . I think I read about it in a writer's magazine, ot...

In an interview on This is Audible , Campbell Scott mentioned recently that the masterful filmmaker Akira Kurosawa at 80 said something li...

Budget limitations on the early Doctor Who shows meant rubber suits and occasionally wobbly sets. For anyone who ever failed to get past th...

I think I'm a grup. I've always known I'm a bit un-grown up for my age, but I didn't know I was part of a cultural phenomen...

Pigalina mentions in a comment below that there is a petition urging NBC to renew "Surface" for a second season. I thought I woul...

I had a devilishly fun time writing The Mantus Files , a horror graphic novel about an investigator of the paranormal. Though the title migh...

I find Podshock , which I've mentioned here before, to be one of the most addictive listening options out there. Each week it's a so...

I've decided NBC's Surface got a bad rap from critics somewhat undeservedly. It's the story of a group of strange, unidentified...

I haven't posted in a while, but I've been productive in other areas of late. I guess the muse is just singing a slightly different ...

It's hard for me to pick a favorite podcast, because the offerings are so rich and diverse, but I've certainly been enjoying Escape ...

I had not thought of the famous Rodrigue Blue Dog in a while but ran across this poster via a banner this morning. Took me back to visits...

Everyone talks about how annoying people on cell phones are. That's possibly even a topic of some of the people talking on cell phones. ...

Of late, I've found myself recalling lines from "Invictus" (the "I'm the captain of my soul poem) by William Ernest...

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...