I first mentioned the Opus Movie in March of 2008 when I posted a clip from it on this blog. I was really looking forward to it then, but it was still a long time coming. Then came October, and I wrote about it again as I’d just learned that the movie had become available, […]

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General Motors filed for bankruptcy earlier today, in a move expected by many. While I don’t want to pile on, at least in this blog, it does make me wonder just what the leadership might have been thinking, or whether it was ever thinking, to let things get to this point. I remember the hullabaloo […]

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Back in February, I wrote here about receiving my first ever bit of “schwag”, though I’d also seen it spelled as “swag”; no matter. Anyway, it was a free book and a free flying pig in a box, which was appropriate to the title, Wisdom Of The Flying Pig, by Jack Hayhow. I said I’d […]

Today is the day the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Memorial Day is when we give tribute to all those who have given their lives in the service of protecting the United States in some military fashion. There are memorials everywhere today, at almost every graveyard in the country. Those running the facilities will often […]

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On Twitter earlier today, someone inadvertently brought to my attention an article called Making The Most Of Your Emergency Room Visit. I thought, for part of it anyway, that the premise of the story was incomplete. In essence, the article gives the hospital ER’s perspective of what their perfect patient would be that’s coming to […]