The winter behind me I haven’t had much to say about my time in New Zealand so far but it certainly is not because there’s been nothing happening.    It’s been a busy and very eventful time but I haven’t written much because I’ve had a very hard time trying to decide ...

*Y'know, I don't normally post these RE/SEARCH emanations, but every once in a while somebody blunders onto this website through a Google search, and then they read one of these V. Vale things and their head explodes.  Makes it worth it right there. *I ran into Vale  a few months ago in Ba...

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic animates the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic by adding limited motion, voice and sound to the panels. With the feature film adaptation out Friday, this could be the perfect way to prepare for the event. The animated superhero feature film Wonder Woman 2009 is also i...

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic animates the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic by adding limited motion, voice and sound to the panels. With the feature film adaptation out Friday, this could be the perfect way to prepare for the event. The animated superhero feature film Wonder Woman 2009 is also i...

                        For the better part of the last 60 years, Jimmy Prince has worked a 12-hour day behind the counter at Major Prime Meat Market on Mermaid Avenue. Yesterday, the 77-year-old butcher closed his shop for good, seeing as ...

Check out the news stories on China about the effects of the financial crisis. The Chinese military is preparing for an outbreak of riots due to hunger, and workers’ protests are intensifying. In other news about the financial crisis, the euro is dropping against the dollar in the wake of an EU de...

The new Seventh Edition of our classic guidebook Daytrips Germany is now available and features 63 one day adventures by rail or car in Bavaria, the Rhineland, the East and the North. To celebrate, here's a sample chapter from what may now be Europe's most exciting city, Berlin! CLICK BELOW ...

In between all the fun sight-seeing I'm doing, I'm actually working! Well, almost working because it feels like playing because I LOVE what I do! Last Saturday, I taught a great group of gals at Scrapbook Oasis and yesterday taught two fabulous classes (I mean the ladies were fabulous!) at S...

While it's fresh in my mind, I'm going to skip my report on CHA (don't worry...I'll come back to it!) and share my PERFECT day in San Francisco yesterday. It was sunny...not a cloud in the sky...and just the perfect temperature for exploring. I took the BART train from the airport in...

I’m a Vegas pro by now. No, not a poker pro, by any stretch of the imagination, but of Vegas. I can do the walk from the Delta terminal to the stupid shuttle train to the taxicab stand with one eye closed. What? I’m not closing both my eyes, people in airports are fucking retarded. I went out to...