The Good, The Bad, and The Mookie

Earlier this month I posted news that Billy Joel had recorded a new pop song for the first time in 13 years, and I also espoused my hateful...

From the BBC: US woman fights off lion with pen A 65-year-old Californian wom...

The four greatest inventions of all time are, in order: 1. Fire 2. Internet 3. Wheel 4. Sandwich An excellent website all about sandwiches i...

The Staples Easy Button, the gift that says "I Hate You." I should have posted this during the holiday season, but we were in Stap...

Just in case the return of 24 didn't have your heart pounding in fear before you went to sleep Sunday and Monday nights, here's a r...

Caution: Spoilers follow... Rocky Balboa is not a great movie, or even a really good movie, but it is not a terrible movie, or even a reall...

It's not often you can write something nice about Wal-Mart, but when an opportunity comes along to give them credit, it's only fair ...

I was in a great mood yesterday, because I scored tickets to Opening Day at Shea Stadium. I know in some corners of the world "opening...

My buddy Ralphy is making a movie, and he's set up a blog to tell the story of his progress. Thus far the movie has no title, so he loo...

Jason Kottke posts a hilarious list of some upcoming and recently released sequels which are released a long time after the previous movie ...

Attention Men: Coca-Cola has decided to try and make Coke Zero the cola of choice for us, and they are going to spend big over the next tw...

This weekend I took my little brother to the movies. I gave him two choices, two kids movies that started at about the same time at the th...

Drug companies are running out of ideas to help us lose weight, but they've come up with a drug that could help your portly pooch. [The...

Every month or so I send out a "Best Of" newsletter for this blog. If you're interested in receiving it, just send an e-mail ...

From Yahoo News, we read this headline: Bush to name retired admiral as top spy Isn't one of the requirements of being a spy having nobo...

My buddy Scott sent me this news item from the New York Post : January 3, 2007 -- BILLY JOEL fans will be happy to know that on Dec. 29, th...

I might be a little late to this party, but I heard this song on someone's myspace page, and thought the song was just terrific. Here...

Just when we thought humanitarianism was a relic of the past, we read about a true hero , Wesley Autrey, a man who risked his life to save a...

Oh, Life is bigger. It's bigger than you, And you are not me. I grew up a Catholic boy on Long Island, NY. Achieving the first two sac...