I know I'm way behind, but I actually thought the new Star Wars was good, and really good in some passages. The fight between Windu an...

Just taking my pulse this a.m. I have already been to the Driver License division for a points judgement (not mine, my daughter's--see ...

I drove with my daughter up to Logan today for a freshman orientation. Since it was her day (with the exception of five minutes, when I sco...

Right now, on Family Guy, Peter Griffin and friends are doing karaoke--that song by Journey that starts "Just a small town girl, livin...

At moments like these, I become philosophical, remembering the words of that sage, C.B., who said, "In a seven game series, the best te...

I've been "working" on my "dissertation" today and yesterday and the day before that and, basically, for my whole fr...

In the company of two of my sons, I saw Batman Begins this weekend. Both of them agree that it is the best of all Batmans so far. Myself,...

Middlebrow's recent posting which discussed WKRP in Cincinnati got me thinking about sitcoms. Friends and family have no doubt heard m...

On rejoining the Lakers: "It's a story about reconcilation, redemption. It's a story about reuniting." Huh. Thank you to...

I have just finished re-viewing an episode of Without a Trace, a show I got into because I watched it with my daughter and her brand new bab...

Despite the wet spring-into-summer we've had going on here in SLC, today was the first day of the farmer's market. I have been exci...

Saw Kung Fu Hustle tonight, and have been contemplating what my kung fu moves would be if I were a kung fu master. The best thing about th...

Blogs are for narcissists--this we know. Beneath all the quirky, opinionated observations and comments lies the obsessive heart of a raging...

I am in a policy meeting at my place of employment at the moment (sample of the discussion: "what is a 'mission-critical asset...

Because my teenage children prefer music on the car radio (Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, and, incongruously, Tupac and Fifty, in the ...

De gustibus non disputandam est , some Roman is said to have said. Roughly translated, this means, no matter how bad your taste is, nothing ...

Or Tiger. Or even Kitten.

As part of the pregame fluff on TNT tonight, they showed a split screen of Pat Riley and Joe Dumars, then cut to footage of Dumars during th...

Confining my view to the game last night, I'm going to say that things are looking up for the Suns. If you talk to me about the histori...