Fearful Symmetries

I found this via Althouse . Madison is to be the location of the first Sundance Cinemas theater . According to Robert Redford: "The ind...

Last night I saw the Genesis tribute band, The Musical Box at the lovely Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. The Pabst is a gorgeous place that wa...

You are all just a bunch of pussies. Kill a buck like a man .

From the world of technology comes the news that Sony has hidden a rootkit in the DRM protection scheme on some of its music CDs. For a te...

I found the CAP Movie Ministry via Sivacracy . It's a site that rates movies on how offensive they are to those wonderfully pure Christ...

Has anyone read the latest Madison Observer ? I perused it last night and read "What does my title really mean?", a piece by the O...

Regarding the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, star Billie Piper says: "It's got scary Christmas trees, Santa attacks, there...

Here's the text of an e-mail I got from a friend: The IT dept here consists of two guys in a back room. The room is filled with old boxe...

Since Halloween was this week, I give you: vespertilian (vess-per-till'-ee-an) adj. of or relating to bats.

About a week ago, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made some disturbing comments at a conference entitled, "The World Withou...

November 1, 1858 We are not wont to see our dooryard as a part of the earth’s surface. The gardener does not perceive that some ridge or mou...

It is this kinda stuff that makes boring days like today more palatable. A dork has translated the lyrics to the "Theme From Shaft...

Clint Eastwood is making two films about the Battle of Iwo Jima. (That took place in World War 2, for all you non-history types.) The two f...

Since The New Pornographers show here in Madison last week was cancelled due to health reasons, I'm gonna post one of their tunes. This...

It's never too early to plan some beer drinking for next summer. The Great Taste of the Midwest will be on August 12th next year. Ticke...

Happy Halloween, everyone! We had a spate of kids coming to our door for chocolatey goodness earlier but it seems to have abated. Check out ...

Darren Aronofsky, director of the cult classics, Pi and Requiem for a Dream , has a new film coming out called The Fountain . "Spannin...

The White House is highly unamused with The Onion for its use of the Presidential seal. It's so unamused that it's wasting taxpayer...

Since I'm now working at the DNR (that's the Department of Natural Resources), I present a bit of nature. Firstly is noted naturalis...

I got word this week that an old high school teacher of mine had died. Details are almost non-existent as all I was told was that he was fou...