Yes, I saw Rock of Ages on Broadway. Two reasons. One, it was a totally cheap ticket. And two, my significant other, Kerry Butler, stepped into the role of the female lead. And if I’m being…

Yes, that is chocolate milk and no, I am not five years old.

Yes, this is an entirely emotional response to the recent news. Funny thing, I tend to get that way when I worry about DYING.

Private Eyes The Bird And The Bee

Welcome to Wife Watch!, the only blog post that ranks the most powerful wives on this week’s episode of Big Love.
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As we cast our minds across “End of Days,” the final…

Inspired by this post, which shoved me into the Wayback Machine and locked the door, I am returning serve with the following Rolling Stone cover, one of two Rolling Stone covers that were…

You may think you recognize some of your old classmates and neighbors in these classic pics featuring old school BMX bikes.Every other kid in these pics looks just like my husband Rob when he was…

Hoo-boy, everyone.  It’s tax time in my neck of the woods, which means that I get to go through a predictable-but-no-less-terrible cycle of elation and remorse.

Open up the form that tells…

There are BABIES living on the sunken TITANIC!OK, not really, but that didn’t stop the late great Weekly World News from inventing a story (with awesome photo) saying that they were. The WWN had a…

Let it never be said that I am not the suggestible type. Inbal said to shoot at night so I did. It’s actually better for me because I haven’t been comfortable taking pictures of…

Are they vases? Tiny pitchers? Miniature cruets? What’s with the dots?

Power Droid loves peanut butter M&Ms and his archrival Muggula knows that.

Part of our goal with the book is to remind ourselves and our friends of how many things that were once immutable parts of our lives have slipped away.The jobs in this slideshow are mostly before…

Regular readers know how much I love Bob Greene, still.He writes occasionally for CNN, and today has a column about cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who will be honored with a postage stamp. I hadn’t…

Aw, this kind of breaks my heart.

From gustavolacerda:—–Sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects, according to a new study of male behavior. Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures…

A truly enjoyable Oscar ceremony needs to be both a carefully planned event and a hotbox of spontaneity. We need to simultaneously see the polish of professional artistry and the messiness of raw…

You may have noticed a shift in the categories and tags on the blog; I'm preparing for another redesign. I know it feels like I just ported everything over from the last redesign, but this…

This PSA for the United Negro College Fund is really well-done for its era. It begins with a family of slaves teaching each other to read in slave quarters, and then they have to hide the books as…

If Picky Tina picked a peck of pickled lemons, how many lemons would Picky Tina have picked?  Difficult question, that.  Thankfully, there are other less difficult questions, however, such as…

I've done worse — but with 50 of the nominees under my belt, I should have done better.
The scorecard is below.
Best Picture: wrong
I really thought they'd try to split the baby…

Episode 008 of Age of Lasers is up. It was posted a few days ago, but there were some Web site problems that Glark valiantly tackled and it wasn’t updating to iTunes for a while. This came…

Well, friends, I gave it my best, but I couldn't manage to watch them all. The final score is Sarah 50, Death Race 8 (86-ish percent) and 20 out of 24 categories completed (83 percent)….

So this thing happened on Friday afternoon where all of a sudden I couldn’t move my head anymore without brutal spasms up my right shoulder and base of the skull. I’ve never actually had pain…

A handful of nice moments — most of them from McAvoy, who isn't nominated — but one review I read called the movie an acting showcase more than a plot, and I'd have to agree….