I've just finished preparing a (first draft of a) chapter outline of My Girlfriend's Boyfriend to send to the publishers, and I...

The results of that Paste Magazine 100 Best Living Songwriters poll that I talked about a few months ago are out . As I said at the time, I...

So it seems that the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player has died . Apparently he had been quite despondent since Jerry Garcia passed a...

You weirdos who don't like the Dixie Chicks are going to want to scroll down. Via North Jersy Media : One of the more innocuous explan...

Excerpted from the LA Times: ...you would think that Warner Bros. might have been happy with Alonso Duralde's cover story about "Su...

It's times like this I long for Al Gore to have watched State Of The Union , a Tracy/Hepburn film directed by Frank Capra that if he...

Okay, so it's a blog, not a TV show, but those words just sound like they should follow. Mark was kind enough to give me a little shout-...

And the groundswell begins .

PZ Myers has a thing for octopi and the like. Today, he's indulging that love with a collection of links and pics. The one on the right...

You know, something like Yes without their one strong song...Ladies and gentlemen, LGBT! But seriously, folks...a blog called Mombian has d...

Frankly, I'm surprised it took them this long.

Pop rocker Pink was blown away after giving a speech to 700 girls at Toronto's Humberside Collegiate Institute while promoting her album...

Now, I don't think much one way or other about Tom Petty. Like some of the singles, that's about it. Similarly, Jeff Lynne. ELO was ...

On the one hand, we invented what we laughably call the democratic political system. On the other, one of us can do things like this . Hey S...

The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens. --George Bush, Philadelphia Co...

If you can take another Al Gore post, Nora Ephron has a good one at the Huffington. Excerpt: What sets the Gore movie apart is not the way i...

Sparked by PZ Myers' list of beautiful things ... The ocean. The synthesizer. That's a Prophet V. sequencer, BTW, since I know you ...

A comics and animation artist named Alex Toth passed away a day or so ago. If you don't know who that was, Mark Evanier has a quick obit...

For those of you that hadn't heard.

I want to say a special shout-out to Paul Gleason, an actor who died today . He was best known for playing...well, see the headline...in a ...