It was birthday on Thursday – May 29th, which is also the birthday of Patrick Henry, Bob Hope and JFK. I turned 54 and feel many days like T...

Since I was in talk radio back in the 1980s, I've raised money and – hopefully – awareness locally for the issue of domestic violence. ...

The toughest thing about writing a book is once it is published and there's some initial publicity activity it just sits there. It's...

Hey I just posted something but because I wrote part of it on Wednesday it's actually dated as Wednesday and here it is Sunday! Damn my ...

Scenes from a roast...The Valley Press Club – the only press club in the state – conducted its annual roast of politicians and vice versa r...

The only indie bookstore in Springfield closed down recently, throwing many people into another cycle of saying that downtown Springfield ...

The following is part of my rant in the weekly papers I edit that sort of dovetails into my previous post. I can see by the comments my Sund...

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to ...

Below is the latest poll from the Zogby group. Here's what I'm doing: cutting down on trips for work – where I use most of my gas –...

Hey, Barnes and Noble already have a page up for my Springfield postcard book, so go here and order it dammit! Buy a couple of copies of ...

I haven't posted any DVD reviews in a while, so here is some of the titles I've endured or enjoyed recently Indiana Jones: the Adve...

There's lots of Indiana Jones stuff floating around in the media these days with the release of the new movie. Paramount is releasing t...

One of my greatest pleasures as a editor/reporter is to interview the comics who come through our area and i was really looking forward to s...

Pages from "Progressive Springfield," a photo book published by George Graves in 1914. It always heartens me that there are still ...

Autographs are in themselves fairly worthless I've always thought. The folks who hound people for their signature don't seem to be i...

Here's a few more examples of how animated films have been sold over the years and I really don't see a hell of a lot of difference ...

Isn't interesting how often animation has been sold to the public as either a novelty or an event? Despite there having been animated f...

I wrote about a new Arcadia Publishing book on Mountain Park this week. Jay Ducharme, the author, made an interesting point about the shift...

It's flea market season here in the Pioneer Valley with the opening of what I think is the best outdoor flea market around, the Hadley m...

I get some interesting mail as an editor – see below – but first a shameless plug: The Valley Press Club's annual roast is slated for ...