I'm about a month away from a plunge into a new experience. That's not the cause for the scarcity of posts from me of late. That dea...

This will not be the day. She sits purring on my knee Or crouches in the corner Near British mysteries and unread Micheners Destined t...

Erik notes that Congress passed a veto-proof package to bolster rail travel . I'm all for it! We should have done it years ago. Ironical...

Wayne reminded me that I'd missed the first episode of Fear Itself by mentioning in an e-mail that he'd taped it from NBC Thursda...

Wow, how did I not know of Runrig ? They are not well known in the U.S. I suppose, but I am a bit of a follower of the British Isles. Someho...

The other night, after we'd had Miss Daisy at the vet because of her kidney condition , Christine brought her home while I went back to...

I've probably mentioned how much I love "The Andy Griffith Show." I'm old enough to remember watching it "new" o...

I've detected some Indiana Jones bashing out there. I liked Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . Is it like the others?...

Years ago--I believe 1976 to be exact--someone on NBC News observed: "If it weren't for Edgar Rice Burroughs, we wouldn't be on...

Years--make that eons--ago my next door neighbor at the time mentioned Thomas H. Cook's Blood Innocents . I'd seen it on the stands,...

I owe a bit of a debt to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Benjamin Button, the man who ages backward in a somewhat atypical Fitzgerald short story th...

Thanks to everyone for the kind thoughts about Miss Daisy. She's been in good spirits the last couple of days and the vet has been plea...

We got some bad news this week. Miss Daisy Kittycat, eldest of our four feline companions, is suffering kidney failure. She's had some ...

(From Miladysa I learned that today is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day . This is my little effort to keep with the cause. I hope it...

Shauna Roberts at For the Love of Words tagged me for the "Six Unremarkable Quirks" meme. These are da rules: Link the ...

(Sorry, link on this seems to have expired.) On NBC.com, there's some kind of annoying Flash pop up blocking the view of SNL's co...

Well I did my civic duty this a.m. With effort. If I'd known it was going to be as much trouble, I would have shaved. There's a m...

As I was watching the excellent new Iron Man flick, I had the realization that I was liking it so well in part because I didn't have hi...

I had the realization yesterday morning that generally I don't get scared often in adult life. All of the irrational fears such as the d...

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...