Nowhere Near the Edge

If you are a Gen-Xer who has not sold your soul to Jerry Bruckheimer, there's a chance you will enjoy Before Sunrise and its recent seq...

There may be some debate about this, as some people point to the last weekend in March (NCAA basketball final four, opening of the baseball ...

Memorial Day marked the 30th anniversary of the death of America's premiere distance runner, Steve Prefontaine. Not only was Pre an run...

I, along with approximately 25% of my readers, will be going to New Orleans in a few weeks for a wedding of a college friend. It will be my ...

Recently, I have had the rare opportunity to travel frequently. In addition to the trip to Virginia we took as a family in April, I made fou...

This one is for my Dad, who never met a substance he couldn't turn into mulch, and Andy, for what should be obvious reasons.

Looky here !

For those of us who have not embraced the monthly fees and parking garage uselessness of satellite radio and are frustrated with the endless...

On my way home from work tonight, a B24 Liberator rose up in front of me as it took off from Burbank airport. I pulled off to the side of ...

For those who care about such things, here is a Variety review of Episode III. There have probably been others, but this is the first I...

I feel that I’ve always been on the vanguard of technological innovation, largely by virtue of the careers of my Dad and stepdad, and becaus...

This love letter to the United Nations was a reasonably engaging whodunit (or rather, whosgonnadoit). Nicole Kidman was, well, Nicole Kidma...

Certainly this isn't the worst offender, but I was reminded on the way home this evening of how much this one bugs me: "Only time w...

Sure, Netflix is incredibly convenient, and reasonably priced. That's not what makes it so great, though. No, Netflix's presence i...

But bring your flack jacket.

The week-long pause in posting here was due in large part to the fact that we spent last week visiting an impressively wide array of family ...

. . . if you're a motor racing fan who thinks that the auto racing firmament is missing a critical star without Porsche's factory in...

Finally, the vagabond, orphaned Montreal Expos have found a home. After slogging through Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos' maneuv...

I don't often wade into the political swamp because I don't enjoy it, and on my blog, I'll write about what I enjoy. However, ev...

If you were, say, a very successful lawyer in, say, Fresno, and you had a sense of adventure, how might you change the course of your career...