There have been some developments (to put it mildly ) since I first posted two weeks ago about the 2nd Annual Popcorn Sutton Acoustic Jam h...

Yet another classic illustration from the archives of the National Police Gazette ... That's from the February 8th, 1889 issue of the ma...

This past winter master musical parody artist "Weird" Al Yankovic published his first-ever book, When I Grow Up . Yankovic's...

A few days ago I heard about Americans Elect . And the notion of it intrigued me enough that I spent some time this afternoon visiting its ...

A team of Italian archaeologists reported yesterday that the tomb of Philip the Apostle , one of the original Twelve Disciples that followed...

Good friend and fellow blogger Scott Bradford pointed out that today is the 30th anniversary of Microsoft giving MS-DOS its name . That wa...

Back in late February through early March I wound up reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time in my life. That revelation shocked many o...

Awright, I'm gonna try to keep this as decent and family-friendly as I can. Meaning that I'm refraining from re-telling any of the...

Last month this year's series of Doctor Who arrived at one hum-dinger of a mid-season cliffhanger. So you wanna see some of where the r...

When the hell do the people of this country once again get representatives who know what "un-constitutional" means enough to not ...

I choose to take this as a sign that there is hope yet for our culture. At Comic-Con 2011 going on this weekend in San Diego, Mike Judge an...

Annie Penn Hospital is the main medical facility in my hometown of Reidsville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1930. There's the ori...

So being old enough to (very barely) remember those dopey Captain America TV movies from the late Seventies (starring Reb Brown, forever kno...

2007's BioShock is on my short list of all time greatest video games ever. Okay, scratch that: BioShock is not a "video game ...

The orbiter Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, at 5:57 a.m. And so, after 135 missions that began on April 12...

Not much time for blogging, 'cuz your friend and humble narrator has had his hands in all kinds of projects! And then again there'...