In my blog entry of May 16 I discussed my experiment of trying to listen to all the rock and R&B albums released in the year of 1968 in...

Perhaps the most talented voice actor of the twentieth century, Mel Blanc, nicknamed "Man of 1000 Voices," was born 100 years ago ...

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Joseph Pevney, the film and television director who directed some of the most memorable episodes of...

Part 3 of The Squonk At the conclusion of my discussion of the Buoys’ “Timothy” the day before yesterday, I observed that some readers might...

Although highly feted during his lifetime, Sydney Pollack (pictured, with award), who died yesterday, May 26, at age 73, was never a directo...

Part 2 of The Squonk The linking of homosexuality and cannibalism in literature and art has been noted by both gay and straight critics. Cri...

Please forgive the splitting of my recent blog entries into parts, but I have a number of writing projects going on at the moment and as you...

In yesterday's mail I received the copy of Ed Sanders' 2002 update of The Family (Thunder's Mouth Press) I'd ordered, and l...

I concluded yesterday’s blog with the observation that although its existence has never been proven, the theoretical existence of the “snuff...

The L. A. Times reported late this afternoon (4:58 PDT) that the two areas near the Barker Ranch site where bodies were suspected of being...

The question of Charles Manson and the “snuff film” has preoccupied my thoughts the past few days, prompted, of course, by the forensic inve...

The current dig at the Barker Ranch is promising to become the equivalent of Geraldo Rivera's opening of Al Capone's vault. Here ar...