A fine day in December here in East Tennessee, as I can walk outside barefoot still. I know, I know - shades of the barefoot hillbilly. It...

I read some months ago about the "experimental" movie being made by Todd Haynes about iconic singer/songwriter Bob Dylan and that ...

The strange events surrounding the shooting death of Peyton Strickland by police who stormed his apartment got even stranger this week. A ju...

It's taken some time to construct and it was time well spent. The online version of the weekly Grainger Today newspaper is up and looks...

No one ever thought it would be memorable, but they were wrong. " What the roomful of executives saw upon the first screening was a sho...

Are women, as a rule, lacking in humor? The idea has long been debated among friends, once the old adage was mentioned during one fateful ev...

This past weekend my nephew asked me how I was coping with the ever-dwindling televised opportunities to watch "Buffy The Vampire Slaye...

Today a grand jury indicted a North Carolina deputy with murder in the shooting death of an 18-year-old, Peyton Strickland, said by authorit...

A press conference is scheduled for today in North Carolina regarding the shooting death by police of an 18-year-old suspected in the robbe...

I have little support or enthusiasm for the much overestimated report from the Iraq Study Group. You don't have to be a foreign relation...

There are some recent events which need/deserve blog attention this weekend. However, real life is interfering. That means I am going to Cha...

The complete first seasons of two classic TV series arrive finally, and both are must haves. One is fascinating for capturing the high point...

Congratulations goes to a reader here, known as CarpenterJD, whose entry into the Win A RoboReptile Contest was short, sweet and ridden wit...

Most of us have no idea if or when we consume foods which are made using the now-nefarious partially hydrogentated vegetable oil. Brittney h...

UPDATE : An Executive Committee meeting of the writers and owners of this blog (me) made a recommendation to alter this contest -- if you...

Ah, the holidaze returns. A dizzy collection of rare (or maybe just forgotten) Christmas music MP3s can be found at Check The Cool Wax , whi...

The dog was watching "White Christmas" the other night. I took it for a sign. It's a sign of a 21st century life - all new and...

The former mayor pled guilty to 233 counts on charges related to the voting fraud fiasco in 2004 in the town of Appalachia. I first mentione...

Warning: Connecting to the blogsite being mentioned in this post is likely to cause you to spend a good chunk of time searching past posts a...

Documentaries have been elevated into mainstream popularity over the last decade by numerous stellar films, and I would imagine the leading ...