Whatever your thoughts about President Obama, you have to admit, the man can read. Set a teleprompter in front of him and he’ll read it so well some people actually get chills. Japan’s Prime Minister, Taro Aso, isn’t so lucky: He’s made so many public blunders that an opposit...

I did. Twice. Once on Friday night with my friends and once on Sunday afternoon with my family. And I loved Watchmen both times: the first with wonder and fresh passion, the second more tenderly. The reviews are all over the place. Ebert loved it. Entertainment Weekly said it was lousy, with the act...

Hey! Free for all Friday is all over the place today. A new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer. Just when you think you couldn’t get any less Snape in a trailer, Warner Brothers goes that extra mile and gives you exactly three picaseconds, mostly of his gloriously greasy hair whipp...

Entertainment Weekly has six special covers this week (or last week?) to showcase each of the primary Watchmen characters. Here’s Rorschach: Everybody flipped out. His mask, his specifically to psychologize you ink blot mask, apparently looks like a penis. Ironic, right? What with him being so...

We can all dig Wizard Rock, right? Who doesn’t love people forming up rock bands– many of them with actual song-writing and instrument-playing skills!– and then singing about the various characters and plots of the Harry Potter universe? I got started with Harry and the Potters. Fr...

This Friday, let us be as free as the weather here in the Heart of Dixie. It was lushly low 70s and breezy yesterday. Today it’s dark and stormy and raining and getting colder and we’re supposed to have some heavy thunderstorms with something like 60 mph winds. Then, when those are over,...

“I,” she opened her hands to include Jesus and Papa, “I am a verb. I am that I am. I will be who I will be. I am a verb! I am alive, dynamic, ever active, and moving. I am a being verb.” …. “And as my very essence is a verb,” she continued, “I am more ...

Y’all, I may have shot my wad last week, vis as vis freeing it for all. That’s a lot of links. This week I have proportionately fewer. As in, one? Look at ArcAttack performing the Doctor Who theme on Tesla coils: Honu Girl just sent me that. Is that not the coolest thing you have ever se...

More than anything, running has taught me that I can. I never doubted I could run the Mercedes Half-Marathon. I had a great coach and a great training program and even the first time I ran 13 miles I was confident I could do it. But actually running the course yesterday was different than it was two...

Hey y’all. Sorry about that. My grandpa died, so there were days in Iowa, and memorial services, and many cousins of all varieties and both sides of my family. It was a good service, as these things go. And it was very much his time, so we were all pleased that he’s finally at peace and ...