OK, this time I wasn't really going to watch it. It just came on Turner Classics (supposedly: though I knew it was coming on) while I...

I'm going to call this "the bureaucracy of the pisspot":  in which ordinary citizens are deprived of the right to pee by th...

(This started out as a journal entry, then I started to get engrossed in it and decided to cut 'n' paste and see where it took me. ...

News Flash: two corgis escape Buckingham Palace for sudden-death tetherball faceoff, with Kate in hot pursuit!

Phaedra (mythology)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Greek mythology, Phaedra (Phaidra) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife ...

I don't know if it's brain damage from smoking too much nutmeg or what, but some poisoned synapse of my brain just released this f...

In the Great Kitchen/Handy Man Sweepstakes, who comes out on top? I think it's Bessie. Great as Ethel Waters is (and I saw her on Turn...

I'd say he's mighty handy.

If you've never read this, and most people haven't, be prepared for a shock. Felix Salten's masterpiece Bambi: A Life in the Wo...