09.09.09 : “No. 9” indeed. It’s as if the date was predestined, its significance anticipated over four decades ago on The Beatles , aka the ...

Anne Dick, third wife of the late science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (the couple is pictured at left, early 1960s), sent me the link to a...

The first thing I did this morning, as I started running around using the car to do banal errands (e.g., recycling, purchasing stamps, etc.)...

Marijuana use is, of course, illegal. Under federal law, marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance (in the same category as LSD, heroi...

The last – it speaks of fatality and finality, the end of one historic moment and the beginning of another, but without the reassuring com...

An interrogation—a lengthy and methodical series of questions used by the police and the military to acquire crucial information—typically o...

A few months ago I wrote a blog dealing with adjectival criticism and music, complaining that many popular music writers—like the AMG sort,...

According to ElvisMatters , the Belgian website dedicated to all things Elvis, MusicStack has tried to put together a list of the ten most ...

The mass media is fond of “sound bites,” utterances that, putatively, compress a great deal of information within a few words or a short phr...

Elvis Presley died 32 years ago yesterday (August 16). Preoccupied as it was with selling Woodstock this past weekend, the mass media failed...

It should be rather obvious that this weekend’s 40th anniversary of Woodstock is producing a torrent of recollections about the event, on th...

The French film critic André Bazin was able to find a moment of redeeming value in an otherwise forgettable movie. For him, a mediocre film ...