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Neill Blomkamp's new movie District 9 should be a TV show: like the new Battlestar Galactica , the movie uses sci-fi to explore politi...

Another reason not to pay 100 bucks for a Broadway show: these performers are so polished it's not really live , there's little to ...

So I started this great book by Nick Reding, Methland: the Death and Life of an American Small Town , right? and it was so gripping that I w...

Alex transmogrified the Sister Sledge chorus "We are family" into a ditty about the long-pig . . . "Eat your family."

If the Tom Arnold story isn't for you, then perhaps you'd prefer his sister Lori's rise and fall . . . I just learned about her ...

For two weeks at Sea Isle City, we watched the same odd scene enacted over and over in front of the life guard stand: the same burly blond ...

After a long day of running, skim-boarding, and beach soccer, I made the mistake of complaining about my bad ankle in front of my wife; she...

In his new movie, Inglourious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino extends the Indiana Jones quip in The Last Crusade (Nazis . . . I hate these gu...

While we were on the beach, Catherine gave me the rest of her buffalo chicken sandwich and I ate it while standing in the ocean; I highly r...

Part six : so I'm telling my wife about all the new-found knowledge I've learned while reading Born to Run , and I'm especially...

Alex swam the width of the pool a few days ago in the four foot section (which is over his head) and he used the dog paddle to breathe and t...

Part five: Born to Run espouses a less is more approach to running footwear, and makes some well researched and valid claims that bulky ex...

Example number four: after I read The Omnivore's Dilemma, I had a meltdown about all the products we were using with corn 2 in them; I...

Sorry to break the flow of the art of articulation serial , but here's the quick report on the Lecompt Show at the Springfield Inn:  1) ...

Part three: But I have a wife , and she has to live with me after I read a new book.

Part Two: Sometimes when I read a book, I get really excited and forget there was ever a time before I had read that book, and want to impl...

Part one: I need to work on how I phrase things.

Yesterday, a particularly tenacious Herring gull, attempting to impress the coaches and secure a place on the 65 man roster, blocked a baref...

My son Ian, who loves the water and has a different swimming stroke for every animal (the caterpillar, the whale, the shark, the squid) ofte...

Whenever you have a party to get rid of excess beer in your fridge, you end up with more than when you started.