The word up at the Wired blog is that Guillermo del Toro who directed Hellboy , The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth and other cool fli...

You ever have one of those headlines on a news aggregator that just cries out to be clicked? I can ignore the latest Jamie-Lynn Sigler née ...

A friend with whom I share book suggestions asked the other day if I had read The Darkest Evening of the Year . She had started reading Dean...

Wow, is the package for the Mad Men DVD inspired, or what? The box for season one of the '60s, Madison Avenue-set drama is shaped like ...

This could be subtitled books I should have read in the '70s. As I've probably mentioned here, I'm a biblioholic. When I'm n...

Speaking of horror comics, as I was in the last post, there's a new and really good book about the history of the four-color pages calle...

Updated - see below Roland turned me on to WOWIO , a site for advertising-sponsored ebooks. It includes quite an array of comics as well a...

It seemed like for a while, when I was a kid, just about every movie or every other movie that I wanted to see starred Charlton Heston. Hard...

Ironically, I was watching a Samuel L. Jackson movie. It was Freedomland , but you know, six degrees of Kevin Bacon and all that. The movie ...

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...