What a birthday party this would be! Eric Clapton is 65 today, Tracy Chapman is 46, and Norah Jones is 31. I found a collaboration between C...

Curtis Michael Allgier--handsome fella, wouldn't you say?--wants to get married. However, right now he's incarcerated at the Utah St...

The past couple of weeks I've showed you some ads from an 1899 issue of the short story magazine, BLACK CAT. Some of the ads are aimed a...

It's Nick Lowe's 61st birthday today. Lowe, from the UK, is a very important man in various forms of pop rock, including country, ro...

People who knew her have nothing but good things to say about 55-year-old Maralee Andreason. She was a "stay-at-home Grandma," aft...

A few years ago I saw a teacher aide in one of the schools where I worked who had a terrible disfigurement to her upper lip. Half of it appe...

Terrorist Osama Bin Laden's son, Khalid, claims 30 of his siblings are being held prisoner in Iran. An Associated Press article from Mar...

I just flew in from Pennsylvania, and man, are my arms tired! Our 10-day visit with my son and his family is over and I enjoyed it. My grand...

I'm out of town, and this is a reposting of a blog from May 20, 2006: My coworker Jeff is given to some sort of hysteria about diseases,...

I'm on vacation, out of town this week. This is a reposting of a blog from May 12, 2006: "Awesome" is such an overused word th...

I am out of town and this is a reposting of a blog I did on May 11, 2006: A few years ago I found a book at a thrift store. Well, that's...

I'm out of town, so I'm reposting some of my favorites amongst my blogs. This is from April 23, 2006. In the course of cleaning out...

I am out of town until March 13. Until then I am rerunning some of my old blogs. With minor editing, this was my first blog, from April 18, ...

Among the ads from the 1899 issue of Black Cat Magazine I showed you yesterday was an ad selling hypnotism. Hypnotism ads have been popular...

When I looked at this 1899 issue of Black Cat Magazine I saw the ads, and in 111 years not much has changed in advertising. People are stil...

I've put on my love beads, my sandals, my tie-dye shirt and my peace sign medallion. I've jumped into the Wayback Machine and I'...

This sequence from Dilbert reminds me of the time I was so exasperated with my boss I told him, "If I come to your funeral I promise I ...

I'm on a nostalgia kick today. Last night I was wandering around the YouTube wonderland, thinking up names of bands and songs from my te...

Mark and Lori Hacking had gone to high school together. They had married, and when Lori was 27 she was pregnant. Mark and Lori were moving t...