Journalist and television personality Barbara Walters has passed. By the time I was aware of who was on TV, Barbara Walters was already an i...

Senator Bob Dole has passed. Dole was the GOP candidate in the first presidential election in which I could cast a vote, and so I spent no s...

The first thing I remember hearing was that people were hoarding toilet paper. It had a "man bites dog" element to the news - ...

Sometimes you read about World War I or II and you wonder what you'd have been like in those circumstances.  What would it be like to be...

I'm not going to lecture you on COVID-19/ the coronavirus.  You know what it is.  The plan was not to return to work on Monday (it'...

This weekend saw two mass shootings. You don't need for me to tell you why those shootings happened, or describe the tragedy of what o...

I'll be honest - after watching the Netflix doc The Inventor , I'm still stuck on the saga of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. A...

Former President George Herbert Walker Bush, our 41st President, has passed at the age of 94. From the New York Times . I genuinely a...

As a site that features content related to Superman, it seems that I should *probably* cover the confusion caused yesterday by The Holly...

Watched:  08/19/2018 Format:  Amazon Streaming Viewing:  First Decade:  2000's You guys, I @#$%ing loved this movie.  Get a lo...

Patron Saint of The Signal Watch, Lynda Carter, has received a much deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

photo from Daily Beas t by Brendan Buress When the first bomb went off, I assumed something was up in the victim's personal life -...

I dig Jack Kirby's New Gods and related Fourth World matter.

Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed .  Hawking was not just one of the finest minds of our era, but a brilliant communicator for scie...

whole lot of skatin' goin' on I didn't write about it, but most of our evenings - and some of our day times - of late hav...

(blergh) Watched: 02/11/2018 Format: Alamo Drafthouse Viewing: First. And, God willing, last. Decade: 2010's Hey!  As a m...

Man.  I... am just in awe at this feat of vision, ingenuity and engineering.

Here in the great State of Texas, it is now somewhat legal to brandish a sword in public.  Basically the conservatives have been in charge m...

I do not expect most people to understand Houston.  I don't get it, and I go there pretty often and have friends there.  Lived north o...

Houston, from KHOU's website I know the weather is probably lovely wherever you are.  Here in Texas, we're getting devastated...