Oscar nominations are in as of yesterday morning. Overall, the choices were predictable and honored those studios who no doubt mounted rigo...

Hey dudes and dudettes. I know -- I've been sucking it as a blogger lately what with my rambling and infrequent postings. Here's ...

I'm watching the Golden Globes. Warren Beatty just got off the stage after a rambling, un-written speech for his Lifetime Achievement A...

I finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" this afternoon. Nevermind the terrible cover, the book's amazing. There are no c...

Watched "Red Dragon" tonight, just like I threatened I was going to do yesterday. I saw it in theaters years back and liked it, t...

While I'm printing my book out (which is taking forever -- who knew printing 497 pages could require such close supervision?), I thought...

Frozen wastes. A spectral Lovecraftian sky. Bodies half-buried in the snow. All on the cover of a novel with the words "The Terror...

On the 15th of last month, an anonymous literary agent by the name of Miss Snark began accepting 'hooks' from unpublished novels wri...

Happy New Year! Oh-seven has begun, and with its arrival has come the gift of paid labor, and the sorrow of spousal abandonment. Two days a...

One hour and fifty-two minutes 'till 2007. I've had my ass handed to me a few dozen times playing "Gears of War" with ado...

Hello, all. Hope everyone had some good holidays. As for me, Christmas was great this year. In the days before Christmas, my wife had Best ...

A couple of movie reviews. Since I've been castigated in the past for too much vitriol in my reviews, I'm going to do them the same...

Just finished watching the fourth season of "The Wire" today. Most television shows get worse with age. Even "The Sopranos...

I saw "For Your Consideration" over the weekend. Sadly, not at all good. Terrible, in fact. I've enjoyed the Christopher Gu...

A couple interesting things. First off, Richard Ford. Author of "The Sportswriter", the Pulitzer prize-winning"Independence ...

I went up to my folks' house in Oxford and broke crescent roll with my aunt and uncle from Missouri who I hadn't seen for 21 or so y...

Hola everyone! Hope everyone had an excellent Thanksgiving. I had a whole post written up but, owing to some ongoing technical difficulties...

Interesting comments on the previous post. After reading these two reviews on Slate, however, one against Nintendo's new Wii, and one ...

Hey, back again. Had a good excuse for not updating this week -- I was working! None other than David "All The Real Girls" Green...