Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty

Yeah, got nothing. Be safe, be happy. Be. Happy New Year!!!! 2011

The first four episodes have already been filmed while episodes five and six (a two-parter) were shot over the past month. The seventh episo...

2010 was a personal best in how many books I read, up 5 from last years list. I read 20 in 2008, 15 in 2007, 16 in 2006. That's a 102 bo...

While not a train-wreck, The Lost Symbol proves once again that Dan Brown can throw a bunch of odd facts and some suppressed history into a...

So, after four (and maybe five) straight days of rain, things started looking up. Well sort of. Woke up to hear rain still pounding down on...

It rained all day Saturday, all day Sunday and all day today. Another weather system is due in tomorrow into Wednesday that promises another...

The weather has been odd all over the States (WGN weatherman Tom Skilling said 47 states had snow on the ground as of yesterday), which is f...

I woke up with a headache at around 6.05 this morning. It's one of those where every move I made in bed, just made it worse. I got up, t...

There is some irony, I think, that as I finished Full Dark, No Stars I heard about the suicide of Mark Madoff, the son of Ponzi-schemer Bern...

I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid , which is based on the huge best selling Independent Reading books by Jeff Kinney, over the weekend. It'...

As everyone heads off for Turkey Day 2010, here are few giblets to ponder from the land of The Hollywood. While it's still nearly a year...

So, Warner Bros. has announced plans to reboot the Buffy The Vampire Slayer film -without Joss Whedon as the writer. As Giles would say, ...

Saw part one of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. Its a good film, dark and adult as the novel its based upon. The performances are unif...

If you ever wondered who ended up in Hell, well in Robert Olen Butler’s novel, just about everyone -including some who are still around toda...

In this continuation, John Wayne Cleaver is still fighting the urge not to hurt people, not to kill. It's been nearly six months since ...

In the final volume of The Night Angel Trilogy, author Brent Weeks often violent, Tolkien style series comes together fittingly, but is rath...