I watched the notorious Goldman Sachs gang testify to the Congress. I'm always amazed when I see a well groomed, cleancut group like thi...

An article from the October 28, 1946 issue of Life explains movie censorship of the time. The picture on the first page is a joking example...

It's Alan Price's birthday today; Alan was one of the founders of the Animals, an important group from the British Invasion during t...

I like looking at old magazines for a look at the way we Americans were as a culture, especially in the early half of the Twentieth Century...

This is the Peanuts daily strip from yesterday, April 15, 2010. It was first published in the early 1960s. It's also part of a synchroni...

Tiger mistress Loredana Jolie Ferriola. Watching Tiger Woods play at the Masters Tournament--and yeah, I sometimes watch golf on TV--I'm...

Like a couple of hundred million other Americans, in the mid-1990s I was riveted by the story of O.J. Simpson. This former football supersta...

My grandkids saw the Easter bunny...or at least a facsimile, a guy in a big bunny suit, at a store last year. They were spooked. To a 2 1/2 ...

My son couldn't have been more than three when I pulled out an Emmy Lou Harris vinyl LP to play on my stereo, circa 1980. "Pretty g...

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...