Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty-One

Borders announced today its closing its huge store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The closing, schedule for January 2010, is happening due ...

As the resident sexpot Miss Brahms on the classic British TV series Are You Being Served? , Wendy Richard was the comic foil to the indomita...

When we were watching the Oscars the other night, my house mates friend brought up the oddness of so few Best Original Score and Original So...

The CW announced that they’ve picked up Smallville and Supernatural for a the 2009-10 TV season -along with most of their current programm...

Perhaps, it was the because Prop 8 passed that led both Lance Black and Sean Penn to win Oscars for their work on Milk . Penn's win as B...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLVPRfpC2Yg&eurl=http://www.captainfreedom.net/2009/01/04/captain-freedom-vents-about-new-book/&featu...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Borders Group Inc. (BGP) cut another 136 corporate jobs, or about 12% of its corporate work force, as the struggling ...

For the few people who come here, I've been pretty loose about updating the blog. I spend most of the time on Facebook (which, BTW, I lo...

While the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies did very well for Disney, there is the craptacular "Haunted Mansion." Now wo...

To me, the 81st Academy Awards is a battle between The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire -the studio backed blockbus...

In the hyper-reality world that John Grisham usually portrays in his legal thrillers, most (if not all) lawyers are crooked, evil and only c...

ABC has given a pilot order for a re-do of the classic late 80's NBC miniseries "V". Written by Scott Peters, the new "V...

From my Facebook: 1. When I was a 6 or 7, I was put in a “special school” due to having difficulties dealing with my fathers death. I was on...

There is a point in A Fraction of the Whole , the debut novel by Australian author Steve Toltz, where I realized had I known the Martin clan...

Slumdog Millionaire is, perhaps, one of the most engaging, and oddly uplifting tales of a horrible life I’ve seen. It is bold, exciting, di...