Inspired by a dear friend and compatriot in fighting the good fight, here is my year in review and my goals for 2020. This year was one...

A few days ago I became an uncle.  Yaaaay me!  Okay, she was born to my best friend from college but the two of us are "brothers from o...

Hey gang, hope the holidays have been going well for y'all!  Christmas was rather good on this end.  I wound up with some Star Wars, som...

WARNING:   This post deals with matters pertaining to Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker , which hit theaters less than 48 hours ag...

Now look, I waited decades... decades ... to be able to say that I have seen "Episode Nine".  It became like a lifelong hope tha...

Just think: a few years later chunks of that wall were being sold at K-Mart.   Friends, I have a secret to tell.  I've waited decade...

The days after Thanksgiving once signaled training season for Christmas caroling. Recent years have instead heralded the shrieks of entir...

Whenever I look at the news lately this image keeps springing into mind: That's from Mel Brooks' woefully under-rated Silent...

It's Thanksgiving Day so you know what that means: today we appreciate what we already have, so that tomorrow on Black Friday we will fi...

The notion has been bugging me for a few years now: could my old Atari 2600 - technology that's fully four decades old - be made to wor...

My friends, I know of no more proper way to put this: The Mandalorian is the best thing to happen to the Star Wars saga since the original ...

Here's my piece of it: The slab of it at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum (photo taken December 21, 2016): ...

Awright, c’mon people.     We gotta stop this.     As Barney Fife said, “Nip it in the bud!”     It’s gone on far enough.     If we don...

Despite now being a few years and several hundred miles away from my spawning grounds in Reidsville, I still tend to keep an eye on goings-o...

So let's get the obvious out of the way first: YOWZA!!!!   Maybe the greatest Star Wars trailer in all of history.  But ahhhh...