Three weeks ago, if anyone had predicted I would willingly go to watch a black and white film, made in the 1930s, starring actors I had never heard of, and sit through it spellbound, I would have laughed my head off. Really. However, incredibly, I just returned from a fifth such movie, as a part [...]

George Carlin, the legendary, irreverent comedian par excellence, arguably most famous for his “Seven Words You Can Never Use on Television” routine, died a few hours ago in LA. I’m not generally given to grieving for celebrities, but the news of Carlin’s death hit me hard. I discovered Carlin a mere three years [...]

It was some 25,056,000 seconds ago, at the time of this writing, that I joined Facebook, a megalith among social networking sites. Having tried, tested, and deleted my profile on MySpace a year prior, I was incredibly wary of joining a site I felt too old for…wasn’t Facebook for the unjaded and perpetually-partying [...]