Samsara refers to the cycle of birth and rebirth as professed by Buddhism, Hinduism and other similar religions. It's also the name of an interesting album from Tom Maxwell, formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and winner of slight fame for his commercially successful and often used song "Hell" whic...

If you watched as much Top Chef: New York as most of us did, you became familiar with Finnish ex-pat Stefan Richter and his phallic head. We're going to save the spoilers, feel free to read here if you want to know what happened, but Stefan made it into the finals. From the beginning, you knew he wo...

Bob Dylan may pimp for both Cadillac and Pepsi, but this doesn't mean we don't still respect the work he did. Being of a post-Boomer generation he doesn't hold the same place in our formation as say......

For fans of the subtle humor of Chevy Chase it hardly gets better than Fletch and, yet, hardly does it get worse than Fletch Lives. The lively film follows investigative reporter Irwin Fletcher,......

Palindromes, any sequence of characters or words that can be read the same way in any direction, go back to the Roman period and probably even further. In written language it's more of a game, though there are at least a couple of novels written purely in palindrome. Popular palindromes include "rac...

Known as "The Pampas Bull" to fans and Pepe to friends, José Froilán González was truly a bull of a driver. He got his break when friend Juan Miguel Fangio found him a four-cylinder Maserati to race. His style, sitting aggressively forward in the cab and sliding even more aggresively into the cor...

In 1959, East St. Louis, Illinois was a prosperous city of over 80,000 people. High-paying union jobs in the steel, rail, and meatpacking industries drove the economy and the city had just earned the prestigious All-American City award from the National Civic League. What a difference 50 years makes...

When compared to a normal childhood, that of a Jalop must have gone noticeably awry at some point. Instead of growing up to become a well-adjusted menial wage slave by day/LPGA impersonator by night, we became something special, something called an automobile enthusiast. It can be hard to put a fing...

Cooties, for those who were deprived of a childhood, is a fictitious condition with no clear symptoms (other than intense shame) typically afflicting children under the age of nine. Though having Cooties doesn't seem to cause many problems, scientists have developed a cure. By the simple application...

Anne Heche has admitted to a fractured past which contributed to psychological issues including multiple personality disorder. She claims an alien and/or a reincarnation of God named Celestia would speak through her, but in a different language. She was gay but then, apparently, she wasn't gay. As o...