Apropos of Nothing

#2: Prince at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards ceremony in 2004, Prince was indu...

I'm sure that fans of the Cardinals and Tigers would disagree, but overall this year's postseason seemed strangely devoid of drama a...

James Lileks is a genius; of that there can be no doubt. It is quite possible to spend hours at a time browsing through his website, laughi...

Roll on, you Bears... Watching this game was not an enjoyable experience, and I don't look forward to playing Washington in the next few...

Random thoughts from my first Bob Dylan concert: - The oldest concert crowd I've ever seen. Around me there were several couples that h...

The Ferry Building in San Francisco stands as a testament to the fact that something good can come out of a natural disaster that leads to h...

Tower Records, which announced last week that it would liquidate and close up shop, has played a big part in my life. I remember shopping at...

A great post by Michael Totten on his recent drive across the Great Plains. Here in California we have a stretch of I-5 that heads down (or...

“A great baseball disagreement,” writes Tom Verducci in the article accompanying the selection by Sports Illustrated of the Alltime All-Star...

There's a scene in The Big Chill where Jeff Goldblum, who plays a reporter for People Magazine, is asked by his old classmate's hu...

Memo to George Steinbrenner: Please, dear God please, just go ahead and fire Joe Torre and hire Lou Piniella. I'm sure this will resul...

Greil Marcus' review of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run appeared in the October 9, 1975 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. It is ...

The only time I attended a postseason baseball game in person was in 1972, when the Oakland A's took on the Detroit Tigers. The two tea...

Although I was inwardly cheering just as loudly as anyone in Comerica Park yesterday, it's times like this that I get close to feeling s...

OK, so the gold jerseys didn't exactly set the world on fire. It's BLUE and Gold, not the other way around...but other than that, i...

Terrell Owens is publishing a series of childrens' books. Just in case you didn't catch it the first time: Terrell Owens is publish...