It’s hard for us, in these enlightened days of 2023, to remember how dark the future once looked for the state of stupid action movies. Even as late as 2014, those of us who enjoyed our movies...
The BBC’s Great British Bake-Off is back for another season, much to the delight of those of us who have an odd fascination for food-based reality TV competitions. One wouldn’t think that baking...
We are not all Michael Brown. Or John Crawford III, Rekia Boyd or Aiyana Stanley Jones. Nor are we all Cliven Bundy, Steve Loehner, or any of the dozens of Open Carry advocates whose images have...
The first hour of the workday when you’re not quite awake yet: Having to deal with the one person in the office who’s a total “morning person” during that first hour (or at any time in the...
When someone so iconic, so imprinted on the DNA of our popular culture and personal memories like Robin Williams dies we automatically think that the professional obituary writers remember every...
“My name is Max and my world is fire and blood.” Oh boy if that line doesn’t get the gasoline flowing into the old V8 engine and have you reaching for the American Football shoulder pads,...
Some guitarists' faces look like they've just realised they're holding giant slug creatures. Apparently. Check out the tumblr for more here including Keith Richards and Bruce Sprinsteen.
The CW’s The 100 has become bizarrely compelling for me in a way I totally didn’t expect. Every time a new science fiction show crops up on the horizon, I quiver with excitement, hoping that it...
NBC is once again venturing into musical territory with a production of Peter Pan, and the internet is abuzz over the casting of actress Allison Williams in the title role. She’s certainly got the...
Big data is a big deal and Americans are of two minds about it. In this case, though, the division of attitudes doesn’t break along the expected good/bad line. Instead, American attitudes about it...