Old Enough to Know Better

Yesterday, at a lovely botanical garden in Portland, Edwin and Irene (and Colin, aged nine) got married. A great day for it, mostly sunny bu...

Juke Box app A crossroads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. ...

I just finished John Irving's latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River . Of mainstream writers, I've always enjoyed his work the mo...

So, once again, we have sold an option for The Man Who Never Missed . I've lost count as to how many times this has happened since the b...

Supposedly the most rich and famous of the Roman generals would sometimes have a slave who was to be their memento mori -- a reminder of de...

Back when I was willing to take on all kinds of writing work because they were offering and I didn't want to let anything pass, I took o...

Happened to catch a PBS special last night, Performance at the White House, wherein Sir Paul McCartney was awarded the Library of Congress...

Got a link to a site by Jim Pinkoski, which features art by John Berkey. Berkey, a long-time illustrator in various fields, passed away a c...

Finally managed to get Bristlecone up as a Kindle title on Amazon.com. Dunno why it took as long as it did, but those of you who might want...

John Callahan 1951-2010 Portland cartoonist John Callahan, known for his wicked, nasty, and totally non-PC humor, has died, after a long bou...

Never seen nor heard anybody do it this way before. Way cool:

And, of course, never hurts to revisit Pachelbel, and the greatest piece of music ever written. (Yeah, I have posted the Pachelbel Rant here...

Mason Williams -- the original. He was a writer for the Smothers Brothers when they had him on, back in the sixties: Tommy Emmanuel, one of ...

Had to put this image up just so I could say the name. You ready? Boobie Fett ... (From Kat Brandt)

A brief discourse on appearances: What you think you see isn't always what you get. When I was a boy, there came a strange occurrence on...

Apparently, it is now legal to jailbreak your iPhone. You can also break DVD security protections to copy and embed short clips for non-comm...

The North Koreans are talking smack again, something they do every time they get nervous. If the U.S. and its running dog lackey South Korea...

Lest you think that the only misadventures by police take place solely in America, look at this video from the G20 demonstrations in Londo...

Behold, the Indian prototype for Sakshat, a somewhat obscene-in-English-sounding name that means, I gather, "Before your eyes." Fr...