But nevertheless, as I read this brief news item ... Legendary crooner Don Ho, known for his raspberry-tinted sunglasses and catchy signatur...

This stuff is amazing. Considering my previous favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor was their vanilla fudge caramel swirl, and this formula...

Paul Wolfowitz is a famous incompetent, a failure as a human being and an architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite all this (or indee...

There is a part of me, and it's not buried all that terribly deep, that wants to get up every single day and act exactly like this. Dig ...

Continuing a couple of recently reappearing themes of this blog: How even if you take off all your clothes, it doesn't necessarily mean...

Okay. Back in August, a would-be director sits outside of a movie theater in New York trying to talk pedestrians into buying his latest movi...

I went to see my therapist this morning. On the way there, I found myself behind a car which was...well, you know how sometimes you see ano...

This is another one of those one-hit wonders of which I'm so fond. But for once it's not by a band from the '80s. I don't kn...

Isn't that always the way? And as if that's not bad enough, I'm played by Crispin Glover. What Friday the 13th Character Are You...

...with the death of Roscoe Lee Browne . Excerpting from that Yahoo! News obituary: Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified ...

But if I were, by god, this would be a damn good reason . PS: For my money, this is much hotter than that Rose McGowan/Rosario Dawson naked...

There will be a lot of eulogizing of Kurt Vonnegut in the next days. Almost all of it by people who knew him and/or his work better than I. ...

FOODOLOGY Q. What is your salad dressing of choice? A. None. Don't care much for salad, though I do like Cool Ranch Doritos. Q. What is ...

This is Rock & Hyde, one of the semi-obscure gems in my collection of '80s bands. The song was a Canadian hit (they're Canadian)...

I used to say that my perfect definition of political irony was the fact that Richard Nixon died while Bill Clinton was president, and so pr...

The rest of you are welcome to look too, of course. The band is Foreign Islands, this is their web site , and this is my review of their de...

"It's not...that easy being green ( thank you...thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen ); Having to spend each day...the color o...

At least since that Burger King ad in which the female and male models dressed as meat, condiments and buns slid on top of each other and wh...

Peter Cottontail has been in an institution since he was just a young rabbit who stole his sister's eggs. Now he's escaped and is he...

Johnny Hart, the creator of the comic strips The Wizard of Id and B.C . has died. He was 76. Mark Evanier has a brief obit for him, with w...