Tomorrow (or later tonight depending on how you gauge this sort of thing) is the premiere of Avengers: Age of Ultron in cinema houses acros...

Yesterday on this blog we remembered the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide .  One day after that came another ...

First it was the news that Frank Miller is making ANOTHER sequel to his legendary graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns . And now tonight ...

They had been ridiculed and spat upon for hundreds of years.  The ultra-nationalists in power launched dehumanizing propaganda against them....

Not for the first time, not for the last, I am smacked with the realization that the rest of my life is going to be dogged by my being the...

Isn't this how Khan Noonien Singh came about ? "Superior ability breeds superior ambition."

I needed this trip, severely.  Looking in the mirror this morning, I barely recognize the guy who set off eleven days ago on what became ove...

Driving south down I-95, your stretch of which must be the most treacherous length of interstate in the continental United States.  The GP...

"Chewie. We're home." I've watched this at least ten times so far and I still can't believe that I'm looking at...

Please note: I am not a physician or a chemist or a pharmacological engineer or anything of that nature.  I'm only your friendly neighb...

Last month I was honored to introduce this blog's readers to Cameron Hobbs , a young artist who has come a long way already.  And I'...

  Congratulations Duke and especially Coach K!

Just a wild idea that popped into mind while thinking about yesterday's horrid news about the revival of Twin Peaks : If David Lynch ...

Sorry Laura, but Showtime just made a liar out of you. I guess it was too much to hope for.  Just as it seems that now, as then, this s...

Seriously, I haven't. This is the day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of their Lord. If that cannot be celebrated every ...

The people of Celeron, New York are condemning... and that may be too nice a word... a bronze statue of hometown heroine Lucille Ball . He...