Armed with their cameras, Sally and her friend, Kris, headed east of Salt Lake City for a daytrip to the towns of Heber City, Park City and ...

Things I know for sure about my mother tongue, the English language: It's crazy. Rules are there, but constantly broken. It...

Pardon My Planet demonstrates the fascinating ability the human brain has to make order out of disorder. Researchers found out that while w...

Over twenty years ago my coworker, Roy, told me he had dreamed he was dead, attending his own funeral. He told the clergyman conducting the ...

The other day I watched a Discovery Channel TV show called Weird Or What? , which is a Ripley's Believe It Or Not- styled programs. One ...

British people and their press are being offended by the characterization of BP (British Petroleum) by the American news media. I don't ...

Boz Scaggs is 66 today. He was born William Royce Scaggs June 8, 1944 in Canton, Ohio. I make no excuses for liking his romantic songs, bril...

In a store a couple of days ago I saw a vision: a tall young woman, clothing at a minimum, gliding down the aisle. I only got a moment's...

I've written before about the AMC television series, Breaking Bad . As the third season winds to a close I find myself fascinated by the...

Danny Elfman, born in 1953, is 57 today. Danny, who has what would be called a tendency toward the bizarre, morbid, or otherwise otherworl...

My old friend Eileen, when I met her almost 30 years ago, was a spy. Eileen had just gotten a job as an elementary school secretary at a sch...

Pete Townshend is 65-years-old today. Pete, as a founding member and one of two living members of the original British invasion group, The W...

Born 68 years ago today, May 17, 1942: Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, known to us music lovers as Taj Mahal. Thanks for the tunes, Taj! Have ...

There's an interesting blog where the author shares his memorabilia of 1970s rock concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He covers band...

I hadn't thought about the TV show Winky Dink and You for years, until I unearthed this old comic from my basement dungeon. The kids...