Saw HP5 tonight. Overall, very good - I thought they did an excellent job of paring down the nearly 800 page book into a 2 hour movie that f...

Not so I can read the last HP book (bonus), but because all the security and secrecy is completely unreal. Check out this Yahoo article abou...

In yet another instance of idiocy, the Perry Branch of the Maricopa County Library District has done away with the Dewey Decimal System and...

Get on the horn to the politicians. If no one's heard about this story from Nebraska, then I'll fill you in. The victim was having a...

So some guy in Oregon turned his lawnchair into a hot-air balloon. Pretty sure it was more interesting when Cutter John from the Bloom Count...

Went to see the Joffrey Ballet this evening. They've been on tour in Iowa celebrating Hancher Auditorium's 35th Anniversary - total...

If you're going to commit perjury and be part of some shady dealings that endangered at least one life, possibly two, you should be good...

One of my favorite singers, Beverly Sills, died yesterday. She retired in 1980, long before I ever started singing in earnest, but she sound...

Crisis #1: I have a secret - I really can cook. I can. I'm very good at cooking; I can take pretty much any recipe and make whatever...

The vast majority of this post was originally an extremely long rant about people who abuse the BN Book Clubs - it's where I spend my do...

"A work of art has to be judged by its interior vitality, not by its agreed prestige. Prestige alone was never enough to keep an acknow...

And I'm pretty sure it was me. Sigh. Not only am I blind as a bat because I'm so near-sighted but I now have reading glasses for whe...