On June 1 of this year we wished Marilyn Monroe a happy birthday .  August 5th is listed as the day when Marilyn Monroe was found dead, ...

Hey, Austinites! It's about to be Sci-Fi Week at Austin's own Paramount Theater, August 14-19! There's a great bunch of ...

Last January when I visited Jenifer in San Francisco for the Film Noir Fest, we took an afternoon and watched Tension (1949) .  The film sta...

Let me get this out of the way:  I've always enjoyed the artwork of Gary Frank that's come through my buy pile, and here I felt like...

No movies.  No comics.  Basically, I've got none of my usual stuff to cover. I've really been enjoying watching Volleyball.  Men&#...

Last night I posted on the Anniversary of the 1966 shootings that occurred at UT Austin . Today I had no lunch plans, and so I got up from...

On August 1, 1966 Charles Whitman killed both his mother and his wife while they slept.  He went and purchased firearms from local shops, th...

In watching the Olympics on NBC, every third commercial break or so they're running ads for an upcoming big budget program, trying to ca...

The other day I got stuck in traffic for about an hour (Austin motorists, your hill-billy like gawking on MoPac is indefensible. It was a m...

Author's Note:   Spoiler's ahoy.  Proceed at your own risk. So, today I teamed up with Jason, AmyD, The Admiral and Jamie and re...