To get a blue wristband, the wristband that guarantees your book gets signed, we had to send two emails at midnight on November 5th. Before ...

Three things, and three things real quick. 1.) "The Men Who Stare at Goats". Checked this out on Sunday night after an exhausting ...

George R.R. Martin, arguably the best fantasy writer working today, has written four books in the Song of Ice and Fire series, the first of ...

So many stories to tell, so little time. Especially for the graphic novelist. Comic book writer and artist Doug TenNapel is the focus of a s...

The new full "Avatar" trailer is up . I'm both more heartened by the fuller glimpse and a bit more disappointed. I'm heart...

Sometimes a movie can single-handedly kill an entire sub-genre. It can tackle it and subvert the conventions so slyly that the genre either ...

Sorry I've been more than slack updating this thing. In what I hope to be the start of a fresh spate of new blog entries, here is a com...

Josh Olson, who adapted "A History of Violence" for the movies, got burned in one of those "Will you read my screenplay?...

Saw this over on Andrew Sullivan's blog and he's right, it's hypnotic. The music, not so much. But it's fascinating to take...

The wife and I went to the 2009 Decatur Book Festival on Saturday (for my entry about the 2006 Decatur Book Festival, click here ). The Grea...

The trailer for "Avatar," Jim Cameron's long overdue follow-up to the blockbuster-against-which-all-others-are measured ...

(A review with spoilers.) I saw "District 9" on Saturday, August 15th, and was pleasantly surprised to find a smart, original sci...

Saw "Julie and Julia" at our new new theater here in Kennesaw, part of a chain called NCG, on Tuesday night last week, in a room c...

Take just a moment, won't you, to watch my elected Representative, none other than Phil Gingrey (R), take the assault rifle-carrying hea...

If you happened to watch Michael Vick's interview on "60 Minutes" this past Sunday, then you may have been witness to the firs...

And we're in! We are home- owners. And, pictured to the left, the home we now own. We closed on Thursday, painted two rooms Thursday and...

A friend and former roommate of mine posted a link to this image from artist Tim O'Brien this past week on Ye Olde Facebook and I though...

I tried not long ago to write a post about Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," but I couldn't stay awake long enough to write...

You know it's been a while since I wrote a post that pretty much no one who frequents this thing would have any interest in. I think it...

I finally got a new computer over the weekend, and this is what I picked up. That's right. I've finally come over to the other side....