Note: Ash Wednesday is now available in a new e-book edition from Crossroad Press It's hard to imagine an eerier, more imaginative st...

It seems anything goes in terms of Halloween scares these days. I saw one haunted house ad the other day promising an alien abduction experi...

Last year I did a post on Halloween songs. I would do it again, but I'll do just as well to point you to the playlis t of my new online...

I've done a few plays, but I've never been much of a costume person. Never went that route at conventions, but wow it was kind of a ...

OK, do websites and magazine have to blurt out every plot twist and surprise outcome these days? What happened to spoiler warnings? More and...

Halloween costumes have certainly improved over time. I'm not usually inclined to costuming, other than the work wardrobe I don to look ...

Monty, our oldest tomcat, rarely spends more than a few minutes in our closet when he conducts perimeter checks, but one day recently he dec...

There's a fabulous Dr. Who image on the BBC website, a publicity collage for the Tooth and Claw episode, which pits The Doctor agains...

"It will be interesting to see, but it will probably be sad," Christine said on Friday as we discussed going to an open house at C...

So what's the longest you've kept something on your DVR? I got interviewed by a Wall Street Journal reporter a while back who was w...

You should buy this book , and I don't usually say that about things I haven't read yet. But I have no doubt it's a collection o...

I know there have been a ton of movies and TV shows set on Alcatraz . I saw The Birdman of Alcatraz when I was a tiny lad and Escape from A...

Christine picked the City by the Bay for a getaway, and for me that meant looking up a few noir locations. She should have known that was co...

iSkin gave me free downloads on emusic as a thank you for buying skins for the SidPod from them a while back, so I've been perusing t...

Because it's important to know the truth and not the smear tactics being spread by those running against Kinky Friedman , the next Texas...

Messages from a couple of directions are telling me Charles L. Grant has passed away after a long illness, and I'm, of course, saddened...

I love pyschic investigator stories, forerunners to the X-Files and Kolchak, many penned in an era of spiritualism and mysticism around the ...

Kinky for Governor television spots are now available for viewing online at Kinky Friedman's website- www.kinkyfriedman.com : Good Sheph...

I first heard Loudon Wainwright III's "No Sure Way" on NPR's Fresh Air in October 2001 , when we were all still in shock....

( Note: Since writing this I've read coverage that there were streaming problems from The Table of Free Voices. What I saw Saturday morn...