Actually, it smells more like sewer. That's the lovely thing about floods in Iowa. When the water goes away you're left with this na...

In case anyone needs specific UI information concerning the flooding (lots of things are moving to different performance venues), the UI has...

Once again, fifteen years after the last flood, we are having severe flooding in the Midwest. We had a ton of rain, on top of a ton of snow...

Muppet Show Season 3 is finally out on DVD !! It has Fozzie on the cover. Ooohh....must have.

In the last few weeks, I finished several books, watched almost no television, didn't knit anything, played a lot of Packrat, put togeth...

"The knights tried to model their own lives after the example of those heroes of Arthur's Round Table and Charlemagne's court o...

The NYTimes has an article today reviewing 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - which I've owned since it was published in 2006 (...

Reading The Story of Mankind would certainly improve the average middle-schooler's vocabulary and spelling. For instance: peregrination...

In an interesting move, van Loon somehow avoids Virgil and The Aeneid : "Their own accounts of the foundation of Rome (written 800 year...

I'm starting to wonder how different the 1990s edition is from the original. Other than being longer, that is. The original (and also t...

I finally watched the 1980s BBC-era Pride and Prejudice miniseries; it's got the same tone and claustrophobic sets as the Zelah Clarke/...

So last night I was watching movies, minding my own business as usual, when a police siren goes off on the highway behind me. This is not un...