The Worlds - lite

Ever since I mentioned that I sleep on a doggie bed (i.e., a mattress on the floor), I've been inundated with requests from readers. T...

In light of the Ebola epidemic, I'm afraid I'm going to have to take the temperature of all commenters before allowing them to ...

Listen. You hear it, don't you? Phshwiiit. Swiish. Floop. That's the sound of bloggers everywhere pulling pants on over their b...

You know how you're having a nice day, and then you walk past a mirror in your house -- and see a pair of jockey shorts draped over yo...

Studies suggest that many people reading this blog are not actually alive. These "people" are zombies. This is something up w...

That's Dog in the photo at left. (See the image on my main blog here .) He appeared to me last night, in his second dogly Visitation ...

I saw a cut-off headline on the NY Daily News page. It said: "Wounded woman reveals most terrifying moments face-to-face with Santa....

Sometimes you can't get a story out of your head. The only thing you can do is curse the media for bringing it to your attention. Ther...

Oh, sure. People put it down. They want to look young (for some reason). And they're scared to death of, well, death. But there'...

What is the most boring popular movie you've ever seen? This is an easy question for me to answer: Star Wars. I have never been so bo...

Listen, you young whippersnappers. At some point (soonish), I'm going to share my old-guy wisdom with you. I haven't quite figured...

If you live in Manhattan you have not one, but many, Jewish friends. It just happens. And if you've had these friends for a number of ...

The headline said, "Biden Swears in Schatz". I thought, "Hmmm. Must be a Yiddish dialect."

My favorite human invention is conversation. My second favorite is Dawn Dishwashing Liquid. And my third is the Internet, which was inven...

Chris Rawson of TUAW (an all-things-Apple site) begins his column today with this: It's a brief Rumor Roundup this week, partly beca...