Sinister Urge

I loved the first two volumes of Dan Hipp's graphic novel series GYAKUSHU! His mostly-silent art told a great sci-fi samurai adventure, ...

It's a bit late, but here's my report on my second dinner at Sage, last Friday, December 18. I freely admit my bias, but I'm not...

Happy holidays! Last year has been interesting. At the end of 2008, the Green Valley Library--where I had been Children's Services Depar...

So last week saw the opening (finally) of Sage, the restaurant in new hotel/casino, ARIA where the lovely fiancee is the pastry chef. I had...

Suffering from a cold, so this will probably be short. I saw Avatar yesterday, and really enjoyed it. The IMAX 3D version was spectacular; ...

"Christmas ought to be brought up to date, it ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols." For me, thi...

Finished reading Midwinter by Matthew Sturges. As I've mentioned already , I came to this book familiar with Sturges' work as a com...

I read the Batman/Doc Savage Special comic this morning, teaming two of my favorite characters. More than anything, it's pretty much a ...

At the end of last Friday's episode of Smallville , they showed a teaser for the upcoming two-hour episode featuring the Justice Society...

We've been traveling a lot this month, first to North Carolina (as mentioned in my wedding planning blog ), then a couple of trips to Ca...

The other day, I finished reading The Shadow Dragons by James A. Owen . It's the latest in his series, Chronicles of the Imaginarium Ge...

So I watched the premiere of V Tuesday night, and I have mixed feelings. As a huge fan of the original series, I was kinda let down. In the...

Getting away from the whining about human nature in my previous post, here's what I'm watching on TV on Tuesdays: On CBS, I watch NC...

Sunday before last, my car got hit from behind while stopped at a stoplight. By a guy in a big pickup truck on his cell phone. With his kids...

As part of my (once again) renewed committment to try to post a blog entry every week, I'm going to go through the TV shows that I'm...

The last book I finished reading was And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer . As a kid, I loved the works of Douglas Adams , and that probably ha...

This is like six different flavors of awesome. The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo .

So the big comics news of the day is the restructuring of DC Comics , with Paul Levitz (who I once met, and is a really nice guy) stepping d...

Here's something for me to look forward to...

Here is a confession that will surprise absolutely nobody who knows me: I love old pulp fiction. Particularly the adventures of the Shadow a...