Today, according to the internet and the granddaughter of the author , is the 130th Birthday of American writer, Samuel Dashiell Hammett.   ...

Editor's note:  This is Part 2 of a series.  You can view the first part with just the click of a button.     also, this is a cross-pos...

So, twenty years ago Jamie and I were living in the wasteland suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona in a town-turned-bedroom community name of Chandle...

Hi. I kind of figure the folks who follow this blog know me a little.  I've been doing this since 2003.  I've published something li...

So, I guess I missed my own 15th Anniversary of blogging.  We were over at League of Melbotis back then.  Here's a link to the firs...

I dunno.  I like milestones.  That seems significant.  1000 posts.  On movies. There are 2865 published posts here, so I guess movies ...

The theme with which I entered 2017 with The Signal Watch was: who cares? The answer was a resounding: nobody.  Get the @#$% over your...

You'll hear a lot about how 90's comic books were all about Chromium covers, Rob Liefeld and .  There's some truth to that. ...

JimD has alerted me that this date marked the final post at the first blog I ran, League of Melbotis .  That statement is semi-correct. ...

The blogger who won't shut up writes about a silent movie!  Go on over to Texas Public Radio for the post.

I sense something.  A presence I've not felt since... A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a young attorney, fresh from law ...

When I came back to the site at the end of 2014, I picked up in 2015 with enough hubris and energy to decide to write about each movie...

The movie neither begins nor ends on New Years.  Instead, it's the morbid spectacle of New Years Eve in the Desmond mansion that'...

When I was about 22 I started working on a novel.  I've mentioned it here from time to time with varying degrees of clarity about what I...

I recently attended a small Toy and Comic Expo here in Central Texas.  I say small, but it had major cast members of The Walking Dead in at...

I don't really have a topic tonight.  We've been all over the map of late, when it comes to content, and it's been a wild ride w...

Hey, it's the weekend, which means nobody is paying attention.  So I'm going to talk about something that has nothing to do with any...

Status Returned from Dallas this evening. I like the UT Southwestern Med Center campus.  As with so much in Dallas, its very Logan's...

So, like, way back in 2001, I was working in a video studio on UT's campus.  Why and what we were doing isn't relevant (distance lea...

I am travelling this week for work, and as I was a little concerned about how much  money I've spent of late, this weekend, Jamie and I ...