Many of the reviews of the Superman franchise reboot, Man of Steel , have been negative: For two-thirds of the running time, the film ...

I’ve mentioned before my appreciation and respect for teachers I knew while working in a school district for over 30 years. To do what a t...

Bob Clarke, longtime artist for Mad magazine, died in March of this year at age 87. Clarke was an artist who joined Mad soon after the o...

Ever have a memory that is incomplete, that drives you crazy? It happens a lot to us as we age, and it’s happening to me right now. I saw th...

I originally posted this in 2007, and am showing it again with editing. I found the ad above in a 1957 Mechanix Illustrated magazine. ...

Lloyd Ostendorf was an artist, writer and collector of Lincoln photographs. He published a book on all the known photos of Lincoln, so he wa...

David Berkowitz, aka the .44 Caliber Killer and Son of Sam, struck terror into the city of New York in 1977. In what were random killings...

Cher has had many aspects to her career, which has covered almost five decades. We first saw her as a teenager, paired up with husband ...

I’ve been following the news this week of the ouster of Egypt’s president by that country’s army. For many of the people of that country,...

Note: This is a re-posting from 2010. I have done some slight editing, and made new scans of some of the pictures. From 1976 to 1981 I wor...

My one-sided relationship with Richard Matheson (I knew who he was, he never heard of me) goes back to at least 1959, when I read his nov...

The recent flap over government surveillance via Internet and cell phone interception by the NSA, should be nothing new to anyone who has...

“Are we not men?”  Although I’m familiar with H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau , and I’ve seen screen versions with both Burt Lanca...