Sunset over 64th & Pulaski ...things leading up to the move were a blur: so much so that I don't recall what happened in what ...

A mini-celebration: I wanted to commemorate eight years of blogging, but wasn't quite sure how to do it in a way that had dignity, warmt...

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Happy blogiversary to me!

Almost forgot - forty years this month Monty Python debuted on television, and twenty years ago this month Graham Chapman passed. So, in t...

For many people, they've lived in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, for others, it was 9/11. For me, much of my life was in the s...

Like many single geeks, I spent my Saturday night the way I spent many a Saturday afternoon as a young man....watching Svengoolie on WCIU ....

It was five years ago - I'm living in St. Louis, working as a "community organizer" (meaning that I'm never welcome in th...

You know, I was trying to think of a clever way to commemorate my fifth blogiversary in May...and then, looking through my DVDs, I realized ...

Twenty years ago, five young Canadians put on a sketch comedy show.... Fifteen years ago, a young man went to Toronto to catch the last seri...

A mysterious stranger in a time-traveling blue box that's bigger on the inside than the outside. A trip from contemporary England to a h...

For Alcoholics Anonymous - an organization that often gets the short shrift in popular culture - this is a momentous year because AA celebr...

Dear Governor Palin, First, congratulations on being nominated for Vice President for the Republican ticket. I realize it's not quite be...

Quite simply, after a long hiatus, I am slowly - but surely - falling back in love with the Legion of Super Heroes , just in time for its 50...

Hard to believe, but I've been blogging for four years. I think we're supposed to get a medal for this, or something. Anyway, for th...

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...and all of a sudden, my heart sinks into my chest. For some reason, I'm overcome with a flood of sadness, and in all the rush, I real...

OK, technically the anniversary is not until Monday, but I thought it best to reflect on the fact that 30 years ago, the greatest cultural f...