I get a lot of e-mail at my job as the managing editor for a group of weekly newspapers and my regular readers know that I like to share som...

John Melendez is the second member of the Howard Stern cast I've interviewed (voice actor Billy West is the other). I'm not a big fa...

He's back! You just can't keep a good publicity seeking fundamentalist Christian minister down! Massachusetts clergyman Tom Crouse ...

Two British productions and one from Hong Kong are in this week's DVD column. Thunderbolt As faithful readers must realize by now, I lo...

This is long, but fun stuff for horror movie fans. Vote early and vote often! Please note that my buddy Steve Bissette is nominated in the B...

I met a fellow film critic at a Chamber of Commerce event this week and during the course of the discussion he mentioned that I liked “crap”...

Politics is almost as fun as show business to cover. There are a lot of the same values there: illusion, importance of form over content, et...

Bothered by illegal domestic spying? A tax code so complex that it requires a PhD. to understand? Tired that you can't have all the gun...

This has been a trying week at work and I've neglected my blogging duties once again. However I've collected some interesting items ...

From 1982 to 1987 I was a talk show host on a now defunct radio station here in western Massachusetts. The station – WREB– was the one of th...

I recently purchased Richard Fleischer’s book Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution. In a way it was an act of cour...

I received a nice surprise this week when I logged onto Tom Devine's website. Despite our political differences, I really like reading h...

A few random thoughts have been going through my mind this week. Have you ever noticed how many television sitcoms and commercials of late ...

I'm still working on my book and wanted to write something "original" for the blog, but I realized that even stuff from my arc...

I'm going through the Richard Fleischer memoir of his father Max and annotating it page by page for a review that will appear here this ...

I received my gas bill the other day. For just 19 days, it was just over $300. Thanks to a variety of conditions, our gas company has raised...

My 27th wedding anniversary was yesterday and my wife and I went to the movies, as is our habit. Our batting average has been rather good un...

As a reporter, you may not get much respect or much pay, but you can have some fun. In the late 1990s I wrote for a local monthly publicatio...

Several years ago I had the opportunity of running the Too Much Coffee Man comic strip in one of our publications and I wish I had the budge...