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Hard to believe I've missed almost an entire season of postings here--but as the dates make painfully clear, that's exactly what hap...

So why did Toyota choose an orchestral version of "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor" as the theme music for their latest comme...

"Feeding the birds" has become verbal shorthand for "feeding whatever critters happen to wander by while there's still fo...

Like pretty much everyone else, I've followed the news from New Orleans with an ever-shifting mix of disbelief, anguish, concern, and ou...

I'm probably about the eight millionth person to write in his blog about the increasing egocentrism and rudeness of the general public, ...

Fell , Warren Ellis 's new crime drama from Image Comics, is a perfect example of a comic that tries too hard. The title character is a ...

Tisha underwent a sonogram today to determine the nature of the mass in her abdomen. I had trouble sleeping, so I got up at 5:45 in the morn...

What is it about Shakespeare that inspires creators to meddle and muck about, marking their territorial trail through Will's work much a...

This morning, Tisha ate a few bites of canned cat food--ocean fish feast, a breakfast mainstay for about five years that she had lost intere...

My dear Tisha is, I fear, preparing to leave us. Tisha, more than sixteen years old, is a blue-cream Persian that we've had since she wa...