I've just survived (wokka wokka) a short visit from several family members, who came to San Angelo, Texas to see how we live here; but a...

Sarah and I started An Affair to Remember around Valentine's Day and we just finished it recently. That should be a clear indication tha...

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil  is a hilarious and gory farce about college kids being terrorized by hillbillies--except the hillbillies are reall...

I recently watched the complete BBC adaptation of Trollope's The Way We Live Now , which was the novel he wrote in 1875 that scolds Brit...

Many commenters over the last few years have noted that conservative talking points are incoherent: Obama is a ruthless tyrant AND a spinele...

Before I left Chicago, a bunch of my friends from the improv program at Second City decided that we wanted to continue working together. But...

Honestly, I don't know. I guess the basics are necessary: you need to be speaking clearly, without too much dead air, and you need to be...

Preface: I have Farah Mendlesohn's excellent and intriguing Rhetorics of Fantasy  on my desk, so I'm overusing the phrase "Rhet...

Neuroscience and poetry agree: people do better with limited options and structure. So, if you go into a fruit store, you'll probably be...

I've said before that it seems to me like the current conservative/Republican party movement is an unstable conglomerate, full of people...

I was confused about a bumper sticker in my apartment complex parking lot (say that five times fast) that says, in red text, "Jesus Di...

Confession: I listen to podcasts. Did you know? Of course you did, since I mention them frequently (and even have a "podcastmania...

I had hoped to have a video to show you by now, but I think it's still being edited/paid for/sent to me. See, we decided to have our fin...