Apropos of Nothing

So, for the first time in my sports-loving life I actually predict success for a team that hails from Dallas, and this is how they repay me?...

Thinking of how to describe Patti Smith's new album of covers, Twelve , I thought of Tina Turner's spoken introduction to Ike & ...

You can count me among those who consider TV-Turn Off Week a giant crock of warm excrement. I'm all for reasonable limits set by parents...

On the eve of the NBA Playoffs, a prediction seems to be in order. As you can probably tell from the title of this post, there's little...

Originating at Kailana's Written World , the charge is to come up with the ten books that you couldn't live without. It's impos...

I should have known that Rasputin would come through for me. One of my favorite haunts during my two years in Berkeley, it was where I bough...

"It is no criterion of a good course that the record is high. This is usually an indication of a bad course, and only too frequently m...

Everyone loves a great underdog story, and Zach Johnson winning the Masters is right up there with the best of them. That's the positive...

Reading this terrific piece by Jeremiah Kipp reminded me that Sunday is the 17th anniversary (to the day) of the premiere of Twin Peaks . A...

Dear Joe, Gavin and family: Watching a Kings game at Arco Arena has become an assault on the senses, and I'm not referring to the play...

"In The Park," Berthe Morisot

In August, my parents will celebrate their 50 th wedding anniversary. As part of their present, I'm going to make them a collection of...

The inspiration for this came from Sheila . Whoever reads this is going to think that I was a weird kid. And I probably was. The task - list...

Further evidence that the world is coming to grips with this new era, even if mainstream media is slow to catch up: The Capitol Corresponden...

"I respect him, he respects me, and that's how we pretty much differ.'' - Dwayne Jarrett, on his relationship with former U...

Twenty-five years ago, I was a senior at UC Berkeley, living in Cheney Hall, just south of the campus on Durant Avenue. Because I’d attende...