I had the pleasure of being on Bill Dwight's talk show on WHMP (1600 AM in the Springfield area, 1400 AM in Hampshire County) in my role...

Caution: contains adult material. See standard disclaimer at the side. Mary, myself and one of my colleagues from the 'paper had the gre...

It's Poe's birthday and over at Bissette's blog, he is celebrating this great man of American letters. I tried to post the follo...

Tony Cignoli is one smart guy. A Springfield native who helps run campaigns in this and other country, he has an insider's view of polit...

You never know what's going to pop up on ebay, right? (I've tried to add the link to the auction page, but blogspot doesn't see...

This is one of the funniest bits of animation I've seen in a long time: (Caution: perhaps not the best thing to play at the office) http...

Sometimes having the coolest coat on the block might be a problem. From Sgt. John Delaney of the Springfield Police Department: "At 12:...

I wrote the following as the column for the newspapers I edit. I really believe that the melt-down of corporately-owned media, which has be...

My buddy Mark "Not the Race Car Driver" Martin gave me a barn sale find a Christmas ago – an old ledger that was used by a Spring...

Don't you love mug shots? Why is this guy smiling? Oh, he must be drunk, still! This came to me the other day from Sgt. John Delaney of...

Another artifact from Springfield's past I couldn't help but want to spend a buck on this item when I found it this summer. No it...

I received a vertaible bounty of bad and marginal cinema this Christmas, thanks to my friends Steve and Dave. Steve's intentions, he tol...

Here's a couple of clippings from the Springfield Union – the morning daily paper before The Morning Union and the Union-News and now Th...

Happy New Year! There's no better way to start a New Year than to write about Springfield politics, right? Here's what I just wrote ...

Thirty years ago today, as I write this, I was at our wedding reception. It was quite a party with dramas that only a wedding reception cou...

C. Bagley Beetle, the villain of the second Fleischer feature, "Mr. Bug Goes to Town." About a week ago a writer from "the Vi...

Just in time for the holidays is this screed from the folks who worship in the Church of Self. Read on: By Leonard Peikoff Christmas in Amer...

I started recording a "video rant" this week for our newspaper's Web site as my boss wants more original content for the site....

I haven't posted DVD reviews for a while so here are some: M Squad I vaguely remember seeing "M Squad" when I was little -- th...

Several weeks ago, I attended my 36th class reunion. No, the odd number didn't mean anything. The class reunion was part of a multi-clas...