My parents moved down to Virginia in 1987 following my brother and his wife who moved the year before. Virginina has never been appealing to...

Lucky is thinking, "Gulp!" Vincent There are many ways to divide up the people in the world, but animal lovers and non-animal love...

Who would you vote for? Now remember, this is the candidate for the U.S. Senate in Delware who was unaware of the Constitutional protection ...

A Rock and Shock addition: How could I forget this photo? This is one huge difference in the conventions of my youth and now: women. There w...

Actor Danny Trejo admired the work of Westfield, Mass.-based artist Jamie Cross who was tattooing Trejo’s portrait on the foot of a customer...

There are always critics out there. So I get an e-mail from the folks at the Historic Journal of Massachusetts that they reviewed my Springf...

New car With the considerable help from my brother and his wife, Mary and I purchased a new car: a 2009 Chevy HHR. While we've bought ou...

Do you ever forget what you have? And why you have it? I stumbled across a copy of "The Penguin Film Review," a slight paperback ...

Stuff on eBay I'm starting to go through stuff that I've been lugging around for years and out it slowly but surely in eBay. I wish ...

As a kid I marveled at the concept that someone well known or famous came from the same town or area in which I lived. Although I was born...

I really liked this Korean cultural mash-up. I've not posted DVD reviews for a while so here are some of the films I've recently see...

Year in Fear: Take Two A newly minted friend on Facebook posted a “Year in Fear,” the calendar for horror fans that I conceived and which fe...

Talk radio days Here is part of a story the Transcript-Telegram did on WREB in 1984.That's my pudgy face in the left hand corner. The ot...

Tom Tyler! A postcard with a scene from one of his FBO silent films. I think that may be a very young Frankie Darro or Darrow holding the gu...

Favorite tunes My nephew Douglas! asked me the other days what my favorite songs are. I really didn't have an answer for him, except ...

I' ve not posted some of the recent stories I've done for th newspapers I edit and thought the following would be of interest: Soc...

Okay, please explain the following objections to me: and this one as well: Don't conservatives support the effort to get to the truth of...

Photos along the Holyoke Canalwal k I have to say if I had money to invest in a building I'd do it in the Paper City. Projects such as t...