This was another instance of coming in the back door: I was trying to find the name of one of those old penny-arcade flip machines where y...

OK, this is really a weird one (as if my other posts aren't - ). I've been collecting oddities to write about, but it was such a ra...

As usual, this started out as something else: I got thinking of a documentary film I saw years and years ago, in French and overdubbed wi...

A friend and colleague of mine,  Matt Paust, recently passed along a link to a post on Open Salon by Ann Nichols. It recounted the ordeal...

( Author's Note : believe it or not, this whole story poured out in one blurt this morning. I have no idea how long it is, but it ...

The above video is just a snippet of the most superb documentary I have ever seen: Winds of Heaven, a fresh approach to the life and wo...