Lemurian Congress

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...

I know what you're thinking: now that Michael Jackson is buried we can finally stop hearing about him. But think of the anniversaries! W...

While expressing his annoyance about the constant radio coverage of the Graf Zeppelin's inaugural flight, an anonymous New Yorker repor...

I'm finally watching the 1980 "Midnight Special" DVD and I'm having a rich experience that I'd never anticipated; in s...

Last November, friend Annissa sent me a link to a video by up-and-coming artist VV Brown. The song -- "Crying Blood" -- was not a ...

During the past few years American scientists have been bemoaning the lack of accessible science literature, particularly in the field of bi...

The August 11, 1928 issue of The New Yorker had an interesting article about Tin Pan Alley songwriters. Apparently, songwriters bore the res...

Most of us know that an annoying advertisement can be just as effective as a nice one. You know those commercials that are loud and brash an...

I just finished watching "Sicko." Here are a few thoughts before I go to bed. I enjoyed Michael Moore before he started taking him...

This weekend's Kitchener-Waterloo Record has a nice article about the BusWalk Tour. It makes me sound a little goofy, but I suppose tha...

I love to visit secluded creeks and look at their beauty. Forget the shopping carts and beer bottles down there, I mean the slow, uneven ero...

Last week I got a phone call from somebody doing a "survey" about family entertainment. She was a real, live human being and she a...

I try to stay on top of all the most grotesque and mysterious fringes of our bio-diverse world, especially when they're related to paras...

Minutes after the second spate of Virginia tech shootings became news people had turned tragedy into a tool to support their causes. The pos...

Henning ( HE FIXED MY BLOG TEMPLATE!!! ) has occasionally loaned me some rare and wonderful CDs by KLF . While their overblown and strangely...

Blood sugar finally doing a swan-dive after hours of battling the sick-stress sugar secretions from my liver (which doesn't yet have a n...

When I was very young I remember watching TV with my parents and seeing a commercial where a popular movie star endorsed a headache tablet, ...

A magazine sent Vollmann to Littleton after the school shooting. The article he wrote is mostly about the "vultures": the media wh...

I was originally going to write a great big entry about body image, but it's all been said before. I was also going to spit venom about ...

I try not to stick too many YouTube videos on here -- it gets repetative, slows down the page loading time, and seems sort of a cheap thing ...