Divers and Sundry

Baby I Need Your Loving is a 1964 song from The Four Tops : This song is on the list of 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll from the Rock ...

Planet Outlaws is a 1953 Buck Rogers movie made by editing and combining the 1939 serial . Buster Crabbe stars with Constance Moore , Ant...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1952 of Paramahansa Yogananda , guru and author of Autobiography of a Yogi . I spent many a fond h...

Last night The Husband picked Ratatouille , hoping it would be more the feel-good movie that Up was meant to be last week. It was. We tho...

NPR has a story about Grow Your Own Drugs by James Wong , a book that suggests we might do better with a little more of a do-it-yourself a...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1963 of Patsy Cline , who died in a plane crash just outside Camden, TN . There are photos of the ...

Nerd Bastards has their list: 1)Darth Maul 2)The Bride-Kill Bill 1 and 2 3)Aragorn- Fellowship 4)Count of Monte Christo (2002) 5) Achilles-...

The Outlaw is a 1943 Western directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell , Jack Buetel , Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchell . It ...

Cube is a 1997 Canadian film, not to be confused with The Cube (1969) . It is the first in a series . Vincenzo Natali , who also did Nothi...

Peter and Gordon released A World Without Love , their first single, in 1964: The composition is credited to Lennon/McCartney . Gordon Wal...

I took the short, 14-question Pew Research online quiz . My results: Your Millennial score is 52! The higher your score, the more you have i...

Alice in Wonderland is a 1915 film, based on the Lewis Carroll novel and directed by W. W. Young . Viola Savoy is Alice. This is one o...

PopCrunch has an annotated list of the 16 Best Dystopian Books of All Time. The bare-bones list is below, with ones I've read in bold ...

We watched Up last night. I wasn't expecting it to be one of the saddest movies I'd ever seen in my entire life, but that's ex...

Eastern Standard Tribe is a novel by Cory Doctorow . It's a near-future story of industrial sabotage, conspiracy and choosing smarts o...

The Philosophers' Magazine has a quiz that presumes to judge the consistency of my morality. I wouldn't mind that much -really- i...

I picked up The Savage Detectives off the shelf at Davis-Kidd Booksellers because I found myself drawn to the life story of author Roberto...

Today is the anniversary of the birth in 1304 of Ibn Battuta . I don't usually mark the birthdays of dead people, but we don't even...

One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 Western directed by and starring Marlon Brando. This is the only film Brando directed. The film also stars Karl ...

This handy tool promises to exorcise the demons from your computer. The problem is this: Caution: Fleeing demons sometimes lodge in snails...