This weekend marks my 40th birthday.  As such, I'm taking it easy and enjoying some of my favorite movies. Last night was a recent fav...

Between longer audio books, I'll sometimes do a Vonnegut book.  After finishing a 37 hour book-listen, taking on a decent audiobook that...

Both our own Alfredo Garcia and the New York Times are reporting the passing of actor James Best, known best to Gen-X'ers as Sherif...

It's tough to top Billie Holiday .  She's undoubtedly one of the most important vocal performers of the 20th Century, and certainly ...

From the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands.

I am going to miss the hell out of these two characters The second half of the final season of AMC's Mad Men begins this evening. ...

Happy Easter from The Signal Watch and Elvira

Ann Miller, that is a lovely Easter Bunnet.

This was an interesting one, starting off pretty dark and then just careening toward a nice, abysmal, jet black. I'd read about The Ki...

Back around 1997-2002, I worked in an upstart multimedia production group within the UT College of Engineering, comprised of me and a bunch ...