Someone got to say it first on at least one message board, but it's a good point. Lost Via Domus , the Ubisoft video game based on the s...

Hulu.com , the NBC/Fox venture to bring tons of free shows to the web, has been talked about for a while and I discovered last weekend it...

I had a longer post here earlier. I'm wearied by some of the back and forth political discussion so I'm capping it all here except f...

When I was a reporter, I was apolitical. I have always been cynical. Even as a young man. I'm not so young anymore. I'm not a report...

Do you have books waiting around for you to read them? Doesn't everybody? Kane by Douglas Borton has been on my shelf, or actually vario...

I think a bout of hypochondria is finally starting to wane for me. I should be back to feeling invincible again sometime soon. I guess it...

It's been ages since I've been to a Renaissance festival. I was overdue. Huzzah! We went for the jousting Sunday at The Four Wind Fa...

A pretty good movie called The Night Listener is on cable right now. It stars Robin Williams as a fictionalized version of Armistead Maupin...

(Spoiler warning: This post reveals information found in the Lost episode "The Constant" and thus spoilers to the mysteries of the...

I don't know which is worse, being a nerd, which I freely admit in my profile, or being a low-ranking nerd. I have a new PC at work and ...

Questions can make for interesting challenges in fiction writing. Yeah that's great if the hero wins the throne and takes his place afte...

Christine says I tear up too easily at TV shows and movies. You be the judge. I tear(ed) up when: James T. Kirk is stealing the Enterprise t...

Once, back when I was a reporter, when Reagan was president, the editors came into a meeting, with a spool of paper. We had long continuous...

I can't help getting a little choked up every time I hear Pete Seeger's " My Name is Lisa Kalvelage ." It's a musical ...

Everyone encounters difficult people. I once heard a minister note that the difficult people a minister counsels are difficult everywhere. T...

I didn't catch it live on Jimmy Kimmel, but a friend pointed me to it online, and I just thought it was funny. It's bleeped but bewa...

I got cut from jury duty today. I don't know how it is where you live, but I always find it a bit grueling, kind of like a cattle call. ...

I love my iPod in all its 5G glory, but I'm affeared the cult of Mac is sort of leaving me behind. Christine and I went to prepaid cells...

We've had cold weather in my neck of the woods, though not as cold as what Wayne is telling me they're getting in the Windy City. I...

I think I've mentioned here that what imagination I have came from my father. He always saw the largest rabbit, the biggest fish, was on...