Apropos of Nothing

There is a long way to go. The playoffs have yet to begun. But if this were to be the year that the Giants won it all... ...that would mean ...

Every time the temperature approaches 100 in late September, I think back to my first quarter at UC Berkeley, 30 years ago. At that time Ca...

Was from Lincoln, Nebraska.

...is to get it to stand up straight.

Giants lose 10-9, Cal Bears lose 10-9. I'm detecting a trend. And I don't like it one bit.

- I guess asking for Texas AND Alabama to lose on the same day was asking for a bit too much. - It's really too bad that Andrew Luck did...

This post first appeared on August 23, 2006. But now that I've discovered the video is available on YouTube, it seemed worth a revisit....

For me, by far the most interesting news about the new "American Idol" lineup was the announcement that record producer/executive ...

It was 37 years ago today that Jim Croce died in a plane crash, along with his friend and lead guitarist Maury Muehleisen. Up until his dea...

"Upside Down," 1980 Normally I would do this on a Friday, but I was otherwise engaged last week, so today is a special edition of ...

I thought it might be fun to do a post in the style of my colleague and fellow blogger Marguerite, the proprietor of the blog called Startin...

When shopping for a birthday card this afternoon, I noticed something that I hadn't before - there now are "recession cards," ...

My blog assignment for the evening, courtesy of son #2, is to write something about the finale of Top Chef. I didn't start watching the ...