dance and party with the kids, doing tricks like leaping over the kids, juggling, and even riding a unicycle. Wonder Woman worked the crowd applying temporary tattoos. There was plenty of time for pictures and both performers were very enthusiastic and loved every second with these great heroes...
I thought the odds were good that the Supreme Court would rule in favor of same sex marriage, it still seemed remarkable. The cynic in me, which coincidentally comprises 99.9% of my being, never thought that this day would happen in my lifetime. Much to my relief I still have a pulse...
This time it’s the turn of the new documentary filmOne to One: John & Yokowhich looks at the couple’s life in 1970’s New York, exploring their musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world. Directed by Kevin Macdonald and set in 1972, the film has at it’s core the ...
“Do” Give Them Experiences to Last a Lifetime 14 Aug Ian at a St. Patrick's Day Parade, Age 10 Traveling with my nephews and nieces has been so wonderful – we’ve gone with and without parents to Florida, to San Diego, on cruises, short trips to the Ozarks or to Branson, or...
The prolific producing-directing team ofJules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.have had a huge impact on our holiday viewing traditions. They made no less than 17 animated Christmastime special between 1964 and 1985. The duo created such iconic Yuletide characters asRudolph, the Little Drummer Boy and...
It was truly the trip of a lifetime. We traveled to 42 countries (not counting Hong Kong), and so far, almost 75000 miles – roughly three times around the globe. We bungee-jumped, we ran with the bulls, I lost a tooth on the Great Wall of China, Amy got her hair dyed on ...
It’s funny, acute and smart, but like many great strips (Matt Groening’s Life is Hell, Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot, Ali Fitzgerald’s Hungover Bear) she captures the secret melancholy of a life examined, and what at first appears simple slowly begins to reveal its complexities. The sa...
last winter’s storms left a section of Highway 1 closed so I went down on a whim. “Good timing,” the guy said as I signed my forms. When the road reopens on October 14, he said, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will disappear faster than the mist in the Big Sur redwoods....
As he did for many others, Lovecraft became a mentor to Bloch in both the craft of writing and the business of writing. As an author, cosmic horror in a Lovecraftian vein is something to which Bloch would periodically return throughout his life. But, beginning about the time of Lovecraft...