My longtime Loyal Readers will probably recognize the significance of Indy's Clipper ship up there. It means I'm headed off on another adventure. Once again, my friend Cranky Robert has invited me to tag along on one of his business trips, as he did...

This will be short because I'm trying to finish a bunch of mundane chores and miscellaneous loose ends so I can leave tomorrow on a last-minute adventure with a clear conscience, but I couldn't let this pass without mention. Remember Lisa Nowak, a.k.a....

By some strange confluence of historical currents, there seems to be a number of noteworthy anniversaries happening within days of each other this week. The most significant, of course, is the fall of the Berlin Wall on this very night 20 years ago,...

I haven't followed country music very much (read: not at all) since the early '90s, so I'm only dimly aware of who Taylor Swift is, and I probably wouldn't even know her name if she hadn't done that CMT Crossroads thing with Def Leppard a year ago. But...

Here's something I was planning to throw into one of those Halloween entries I mentioned earlier, since it's based on a publicity still from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I figured vampires and slayers and Halloween go hand-in-fang and...