Old Enough to Know Better

Buncha of martial artists get together every year for a kind of tribal gathering in the midwest. I won't narrow it down to a particular ...

Weather guy last night said we'd get a little rain, maybe a quarter inch or so, today. Got maybe an inch and a half, and showers still i...

The Champ: Anamika Veeramani, 14, of North Royalton, Ohio Happened to catch the tail end of the National Spelling Bee last night on the tube...

I'm ready Craig Colten's book, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature . It's short, scholarly, and deeply-re...

During a traffic stop a few weeks back, Portland police got into a gun battle with a young black man, Keaton Otis. There is contention abou...

An old story of which I was reminded when discussing Hollywood agents with another writer recently. Back when I was writing a lot of kidvid,...

My sister-in-law, back down in Baton Rouge, is having a backyard swimming pool installed this week. Already hitting ninety-degrees plus, and...

Gary Coleman -- Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis? -- Dennis Hopper -- Oh, wow, what the hell was that , man? -- have both passed away. ...

I had to run to the store to get some cold medicine -- my wife and I have caught the current viral URI going around in our family, sneezing,...

Managed to get a draft done on a project, as well as three chapters and an outline on a second one, both of them out the door this week. The...

So, the finale of the TV series Lost aired last night, and already what it all means is being hotly debated on the interweb. I wasn't a...

I am reading an article about Norteño , a kind of northern Mexican border music that deals with heartache and lamentation, and, according to...

This is a subject I have spoken to before, but now and then, I get a notion that is either new to me, or comes at the subject slightly aslan...

Last time we got cell phones was three years or so ago. Got a pair of Motorola Razrs via AT&T Cellular -- though I think it was still c...

This might sound goofy on the face of it, but bear with me: Training is not fighting, I think we can agree. But: Fighting is not training, e...

Avram Davidson 1923-1993 There is in our society a tendency to conflate an artist with his or her art, i.e., an actor with his role; an arti...

Stephen Perry, Thundercats writer (I had to change the picture -- that Thundercat character with a big sword suddenly seemed really inappro...

I've put up a new blog dedicated to Maha Guru Stevan , since his page is offline due to a dead server. It's a placeholder for people...