Michael Jackson is in talks to mount an elaborate show in Vegas, complete with, wait for it... A 50-foot-tall, laser-shooting robot replica...

Just because I find it fascinating how the global economy is shrinking the world and making this kind of stuff commonplace: Next year, a pla...

Money was tight over the winter, so I stopped smoking good cigars and made do with Blackstone Cherry pipe tobacco cigars, tasty but cheap. N...

So I've been involved in a writing contest which has had some incredibly ironic results, but I can't really write about them until t...

I'm having very mixed feelings about Heroes nowadays. I still like SuperHiro best of all, but I don't like the directions they'...

I meant to post something last week, but Blogger decided to switch me to the new system, and I had to create a new account and everything. ...

So one of the more depressing things I went through last year was the long wait on several stories I had submitted. In the last three weeks,...

The game last night was pretty good, although the continuous rain made it look like a thoroughly miserable experience for everyone there. Th...

Well, Heroes returned last week, and I was mostly happy, although I thought the bit where Hiro fulfilled the prophetic of him facing off ag...

I'm still here, just busy. What's been taking up most of my spare time is an old friend/foe, City of Heroes . I had quit for about t...

Jumping on a bandwagon here, but it's a fun bandwagon, so I make no apologies. If you want to burn off those extra holiday calories, try...

TV dramas with a complex continuing storyline are great when they work. But when they fail to connect with a big enough audience, they get m...

Finally saw Sky High over the weekend. It was a fun little movie, although I think it's interesting to contrast this movie's approa...

Joe Barbera has died. Like a lot of kids, I grew up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons. They were often cheap and crude, but we loved them, and I...

This looks like one of those pie-in-the-sky "what the future might look like, but won't" articles that Popular Science thrives...

Archie Comics are (at least temporarily) abandoning their distinctive house style for a more contemporary, realistic style. I hate to be t...

It's been a weird season of Survivor this year. I thought the race angle would make the show jump the shark, but it actually wasn't ...

Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of SD is in critical condition following brain surgery. He suffered "stroke-like" symptoms, but the s...

I'm not a big fan of the Christmas holidays, but some people love them. Some people think they're a wonderful reminder of what's...

Not me, although from the frequency of my posts lately, you'd think so (and don't even ask how I'm progressing on my rewrite - h...