I don't know what got me going on this subject today: frustration over my own endless shape-shifting, th...

I heard this song on an ad for St. Jude's Children's Hospital (St. Jude being the patron saint of lost causes). Nearly unbearable ...

Toilet closure puts lid on long weekend fun Well, they could've come up with a title that is less tee-hee. But at least they ran th...

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.