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As you may remember, I was quite late to the party regarding the original iPhone. In fact, back in June of last year, I devoted some space t...

Last weekend, I ventured up to Rome for the West Rome High School All Class Reunion. As I've commented on multiple occasions, I credit ...

This afternoon, I had a visit from Anju, the woman I assisted after purse was snatched in the Target parking lot. She had remembered the nam...

Remember that request I made for a DC Showcase volume collecting Steve Ditko's horror/fantasy/sf shorts for The Many Ghosts of Dr. Grav...

Following Charles' lead once again, here's my list of the top ten fantasy authors: (1) Homer - Whether he was one guy or more than ...

After almost forty years, I finally know what Joe Cocker was actually saying during that famous performance at Woodstock. Stay with it--you...

Just finished Blake Bell's excellent biography, Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko . I've been a Ditko fan since thos...

First off, let's make it clear: I don't like fireworks. I consider it to be an ostentatious and inconsiderate way of forcing everyon...

Over in the Robert E. Howard Yahoo Group, we're once again experiencing the cyclical "L. Sprague de Camp is wicked" series of ...

There is something almost mystical about the tenacity and the fragility of life. I have been at the bedside of both of my parents as they ha...