Here are a brief collection of movie bits and tv items for a Saturday morning Camera Obscura - events this week have again conspired to keep...

CBS floats a lighter than air bit on a movie star's baby appearing in Vanity Fair. Wow. Shocking. Meanwhile, ABC reveals Pakistan is giv...

A blogwoman who is a lifetime member of Target (goes there for special occasions, like an anniversary) who is also a bona fide Busy Mom had ...

Watching what passes for campaigning these days, which is really just political party humping and grinding, Republican Sen. Dole exclaimed ...

The Sundays which fall in a holiday weekend are a bit better than other Sundays. A typical Sunday is a quieter day when you step outside - t...

Do you bother to sit through audio commentaries which accompany most DVDs? I happened to run across a list of the 100 very best and the very...

There have been some losses in the legends of American entertainment this week, and not just the deaths of Glenn Ford or Joe Stefano. Tom Cr...

I've had a few random thoughts about this most indefinable forum of expression which has the name of Blog. For some who make them, it is...

It is a truly challenging question presented in Foreign Affairs magazine, which I located via The Daily Docket . " But if it is so easy...

The owner of apparently ultra-rare 1982 Knoxville World's Fair Pez Dispenser did not get his hoped-for price of $100,000 on eBay. The ...

Matt Stone, one of the creators of "South Park", says that he has some credible info that Saddam Hussein was shown the movie ...

I know Colorado is on the whipping post for the recent Karr debacle, but I was reading an account today of what happened to a 7th grade Geog...

Today is the birthday of one Charlie Parker, born in 1920. According to today's edition of The Writer's Almanac, though he is credi...

Some days I struggle mightily to restrain childish rants against the presence of The Stupid in our humble, warming globe. There are even tim...

A lawsuit from 2003 against GOP Senate candidate Bob Corker is finally headed to review in court. Alice has more on the story here . The hil...

CNN has announced that on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9-11, they will replay their entire coverage of that day. Viewer...

Deep satisfaction followed a fierce consumption of eels and then going to see "Snakes On A Plane" as I did last night. My thanks t...

I am more than a little ticked off with the Blogger problems today, but hopefully it appears it has been resolved .... better be anyway!!! S...

Some early non-computer tasks this morning mean that the usual Friday movie and entertainment news will not appear until sometime later this...

Contracting scandals, incompetence and a pace on par with geological time are just part of the reasons that the rebuilding on the Gulf Coast...