Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89

As I stood this afternoon at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, a Motorola RAZR mobile plastered to my ear, speaking over the Cingular network, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans from Old  [more...]

Can you imagine if they had done this during Brown v Board of Education? We’re living in the future, and yet we are still debating the same old segregation and bigotry as we did in the past.

There’s a creature in my chimney. No, that’s not an assessment of my mental state (ahem, Tim), but describes a happening here at my house. Last night, I started to build a fire in the fireplace and noticed  [more...]