Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Here is where Garon Cockrell, friend to all mankind, has seen fit to publish This Blog's review of Steve Almond's new book, "A...

Here resides a series of interview questions about Pure Slush's "2014" book series, wherein your humble scribe is quoted.

The inimitable Garon Cockrell of the website Pop Culture Beast has seen fit to publish a concert review of mine here. Go forth and consume...

Ten Things, People, And Concepts That Are Neither X Ray Nor Xylophone, The Two Things Children's Books Always Use For X: 1. Red Sox infi...

Weather and weather forecasting has always fascinated me. My father always said that weather forecasts beyond 48 hours are nonsense, and exp...

Does it bother anyone else that there are veteran's charities? Since we broke these people, shouldn't we, the people of the United S...

"Angel of Harlem " is one of my very favorite songs. U2 got a lot of crap for this album (and for the accompanying film), and I do...

One of my new favorite songs, "Richard Manuel Is Dead."

The late Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian physicist, once proposed a puzzle (a thought experiment, neither he nor I actually killed any animal...

A List, In No Particular Order, of People I Wish Were Still Alive: Isaac Asimov Kurt Vonnegut Robert A Heinlein Freddie Mercury David Foster...

James Hetfield, Tony Iommi, and the surviving members of Queen bring the noise on "Stone Cold Crazy."

Those of you who only know me electronically may not realize that I was, am, and continue to be, a fanatic letter writer and snail mail enth...

The incomparable Lea Salonga singing "On My Own"

I am a Red Sox fan. (I'm sorry.) Being a Red Sox fan is kind of like owning an iPhone used to be: at one point, you were unique, now eve...

I defy you to not get chills listening to this, The Hallelujah Chorus performed inside a Macy's in Philadelphia.