Apropos of Nothing

I guess it was over a year ago now that I began to watch the episodes of Elvis Costello's Showtime program "Spectacle" that ...

So I see that the NBA has finally done the logical thing and reinstated the 2-2-1-1-1 format for the Finals, after nearly 30 years of using ...

There was a time when going to the movies implied that you would experience no small amount of magic.  It's a feeling that is difficult...

There was really no way to lose with those four teams (Red Sox, Tigers, Cardinals and Dodgers) in their respective league championship serie...

Without the shutdown, it's not likely we could have gotten a shot as good as this one.  Or, it might just have been the rain.

Me having fun with a sign that had blown away from where it was originally placed. Nope, can't end any tyranny this week, because ...

Just my luck to book a [non-refundable] trip to Washington, D.C. for an autumn vacation, in order to show my wife all the great things I...

In the "shameless self promotion" department: Local legends Jack Gallagher (pictured at left) and Tommy Dunbar recently starte...

Last Sunday, there was a great, albeit heartbreaking, moment during the FOX Sports NFL post-game show when Terry Bradshaw talked about the...

Or, "let's see how all the old white guys are doing this year." Kings of Leon, Mechanical Bull .  OK, it may be a stretch ...

The album begins with a brief overture, inspired (according to the inscrutable liner notes) "by the idea of Ennio Morricone playing c...

After seven years of writing this blog, you'd think that I would have learned to avoid making any promises associated with things that a...

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of the passing of two great American artists, Johnny Cash and Warren Zevon.  So I'm going to...

New York Jets coach Rex Ryan once again finds himself in the headlines, this time over having chose to attend his son's college football...

As summer wound down in 1976, the disco phenomenon was beginning to pick up steam.  Some of the songs were great, and some were ridiculous. ...

It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend without at least one clip from the Jerry Lewis telethon for muscular dystrophy. For someone in the ...