As you know, I like wonderfully smart women like Linda Ellerbee. It follows, therefore, that I like Linda Ellerbee. That's why I was sur...

Most of you know by now that I've been working on/trying to sell for a few years first a screenplay, then novel called My Girlfriend...

Case in point.

You may have heard of a little something called Conservapedia. This is, as Sean at Cosmic Variance says, a rightward-tilting alternative to...

So yesterday I got one of those periodic packages I get from press folk containing one or more CDs they're hoping I'll review. My ph...

I didn't set out to the video store yesterday intending to get a couple of "celebrity/politics" documentaries. I think I was j...

Things I've Found In Books : Just now, on page 221 of the Seattle Public Library's copy of The World of Entertainment , by Hugh Ford...

Weird. So I'm driving my cat home from a follow-up visit to the vet, and one of those "greatest hits of all time" radio stati...

In keeping with my secondary theme this week of the Beatles, I watched the U.S. vs. John Lennon documentary on DVD. My reaction to it remin...

Trivia question, Beatles fans. What was groundbreaking about the May '66 single "Paperback Writer/Rain?" Besides the backwar...

What you gonna do when things go wrong? What you gonna do when it all cracks up? What you gonna do when the Love burns down? What you gonna ...

I'm planning to attend a forum this Sunday on "Pitching to Agents." It'll be my first time at such an event. I know that...

"Daily Show" watchers among you...did anyone else notice the scariest thing about the segment tonight with the bigots running pig ...

On Media Matters : On the February 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, after playing an audio clip of the beginning of sin...

Sad though it is. A classical music producer in Britain has admitted to deception by passing off recordings by famous pianists as the work o...

...this is pretty accurate. Ben Hecht: The sad thing about writing fiction is that unless one writes classics one writes in a closet. Nothin...

...the Van Halen reunion with David Lee Roth is off . As I say, I'm not exactly surprised, but I suppose I am just the teensiest bit dis...

At least as far as I'm concerned, and that's all we're really concerned with around here. I like my sexy women with just a few m...

In recommending an article by Glenn Greenwald about Joe Lieberman, Mark Evanier makes a pretty good point or two himself. Excerpts follow....

This is the trailer for the new film by the makers of the brilliant daddy cool movie Shaun of the Dead and TV series Spaced . I'm looki...