Say what you want about Chicago, girlfriend, but it's a better museum town than this place. Polish-parking-lot-attendant-looking mofos with big... More >>

Here's the thing about Miss Marple. The Agatha Christie heroine looks like a doddering old biddy who therefore must have a marked decrease in... More >>

Acatalyst is something that initiates the change of something else without being changed itself. So, like, if I put a bear trap at the... More >>

In what is becoming de rigueur in Bay Area radio, 95.7 the Bear is no longer bad country, or, as they called it, "young" country. It has switched... More >>

I am not a flip-flopper. I tried to be a flip-flopper, and it hurt my feet. Flip-Flop People always look so happy and gay,... More >>

Technically, an azalea is a rhododendron. The plant likes dappled shade and an acidic soil. Go ahead, put some pine needles around one for mulch.... More >>

There has to be a phrase for feeling nostalgic for things that never were. Or maybe that is actually the very definition of nostalgia. At any... More >>

According to Urbandictionary. com, here is the definition for "crunk": "The word in Yiddish means 'sick,' and was brought into the Southern... More >>

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they... More >>

One can't help but feel a bit melancholy when one's guinea pig dies. I buried him in the front yard under the fig. Not exactly his favorite spot,... More >>