Strange-but-true fact:  Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner is an avid scrap-booker. *** Hello everyone!  Thanks for coming.  Don’t forget to grab one of those lemon bars that Margie brought before they’re all scooped up… by me!  Ha ha!  I’m just kidding.  But they are terrific, even if my thighs don’t think so. I’m happy to […]

For Your (Re)Consideration is a feature in which I revisit some older work – one perhaps overlooked, perhaps familiar to the point of forgetting its content – and try to reconsider it with an unsullied perspective.  Here’s the strange thing about The Rolling Stones’ album Exile on Main St.: The Stones have never been an […]

Okay, so we’ve all heard about the Jetblue captain flipping out and telling passengers there was a bomb on board and they were all going to die.  And, perhaps because of that, you’ve probably heard about the flight attendant some weeks ago who told the passengers that the plane was going to crash.  Now, maybe […]

First off, the answers to this week’s Weekly Question of the Week were awesome.  I was a little concerned that “What the best rock band name you can come up with from news headlines?” might be a little esoteric or feel like a chore to those looking for a quick chuckle, a transitory guffaw. But […]

If you’ve seen a preview for a movie lately, you may have noticed a couple of trends emerging.  One is awesome/lame (which I’ll clarify), the other needs to stop, immediately. The first, is the sudden popularity of the BWWWWAAAAAARRRMM!!!! This, in case you’re for some reason unsure what I’m talking about, is the blast of […]

Senator Santorum swore!  He swore like a truck-drivin’ sailor who just hit his thumb with a hammer soaked in gasoline and thumbtacks!  There was more bleeping going on than a dump truck backing up over a crate of smoke alarms!  Teamsters were blushing.  Soldiers gasped and fainted.  Man oh, MAN did he curse up a […]

People get kind of silly around babies and pets, don’t they?  Babies?  Fine.  All bets are off.  It’s like some biological imperative to let the baby know we’re not a threat by acting ridiculous.  Pets, though, people fall in to two rigid camps: ‘Getting Cutesy With Your Pets is Idiotic’ and “Mr. Barkington doesn’t see […]

As you may have seen last week, there are new images taken by the Hubble telescope from deep field. This isn’t just deep space – this is up to an estimated 13 billion years in space/time.  What they did was, instead of pointing the telescope at something, they – in what sounds like something that […]