Here's another in the annual offerings of Christmas music. I know there are personal faves for this time of year -- but I always like to...

Iconic sex symbol and famous Nashville native Bettie Page died yesterday at the age of 85. In the 1950s she was an underground sensation and...

A rattling racket on the back porch jolted me away from the computer keyboard in the early hours of the morning. "Dang cat," I tho...

Layoffs and downgrades at newspapers around the country may well leave large and small communities without their daily papers. While I'v...

Those wacky Catalonians! Since the 17th century, they have added a wee statue to their Nativity scenes during Christmas of folks taking a po...

"I would hope that when it's all said and done, people say, 'This is a guy who showed up to solve problems,' " Bush sa...

Sen. Bob Corker, along with outgoing Congressman David Davis and incoming Congressman Phil Roe, are not happy with a proposal to "bailo...

It is no exaggeration to say that Forrest J Ackerman made my life better. He also made it possible for so many science fiction, horror and f...

I continue to emphasize a wee corner of cable TV called TCM Underground and tonight (well, it starts at 2 a.m.) they provide another great s...

There are many conflicting claims in a mini-flurry of press reports yesterday regarding the collapse of the Cherries Internet Cafe, and sadl...

Let's move the Topic-Meter waaay over here for a moment, into the twilight land where worldwide fame intersects with the ordinary. There...

I've heard claims for many weeks now on Conservative media outlets that they are facing extinction from Democrats in Congress and the Ob...

Economic turmoil whirls about the planet these days, and the best part of such dire times is that it offers a chance, for those who seek bet...

I do take much pleasure in writing about movies -- as this holiday-shortened week offers numerous Camera Obscura posts on this humble and lo...

Just a quick mention here on the movie-filled Friday post (more movie news throughout the day because like you I am sorta busy today). Recen...

Times are a bit lean here at the Compound this fall, but not so lean to not be thankful as required by the upcoming National Holiday. I do m...

"Scandal is our growth industry. ... scandals metastasize, ramify, self-replicate, clogging the cable news shows and the blogosphere an...

There are several great things about the movie "Twilight" opening to massive, adoring crowds this weekend. It's making vamp t...

A Mattel-made doll "praises Islam" and even hails Satan - according to some parents in East Tennessee. The "Little Mommy Cud...

A follow-up to yesterday's post on the ripoff hitting Tennessee colleges from the RIAA -- costing taxpayers millions in college funds a...