I said "bullshit" to my mother today for the first time. For some reason, my mom has a giant phobia/problem with profanity. Always...

I've got something of a love-hate relationship with the town library. We didn't have a library in the village where I grew up (there...

So, this weekend, I went out of town with my siblings (two sisters and a brother), as well as brother-in-law, cousin, and . . . friend of my...

My sister's second-born child turned one today. Yesterday, I was babysitting both of her kids, and the older one (as usual) wanted to pl...

Human nature is weird. About six months ago, Sideshow Collectibles announced a statue of Spike from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," co...

I keep meaning to mention it on the show, but over at the Horror Addicts website , they had a writing contest somewhat-recently, and I enter...

As y'all know, George Lucas* has implemented even more changes to the Star Wars Trilogy for the new Blu-Ray releases. This makes, what, ...

Not long ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about my writing career. I guess I should've put "career" in quotes, ...

Last year, I established some sort of precedent by taking my niece to an amusement park the Thursday before school started. We had a good ti...

Jani Lane, the lead singer for Eighties hair band Warrant, just died . Dude was only forty-seven. I wrote this entry up once already, but l...

It's that time again, kids, time to try and figure out who I was taking a picture of at the San Diego Comic-Con. You see, for some reas...