Lots of reaction to my comments on yesterday about Abbey Taylor, the 6-year-old girl in Minnesota who had her small intestines sucked out by the drain in a wading pool. I said that the golf course where the accident took place shouldn’t hide behind their lawyers and deny that they’d done anything wrong. Instead, they […]
I was raised in an apartment where we ate Cheerios, Special K, and Alpha-Bits for breakfast. We were allowed to sprinkle a little bit of sugar on the cereal for taste, but Mom wouldn’t buy us the really sugary cereals. One morning, I went over to my friend Mark’s apartment. I’d already had my breakfast, […]
The FCC issued two disturbing proclamations this week that should bother anyone who believes in freedom of speech and freedom of the press. FCC chairman Kevin Martin issued a press release condemning the decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the comission’s rulings over fleeting use of profanity. In that release, the commish […]
My friend Mark Evanier in Los Angeles asked on his blog today why Dodgers games on the radio are now out of sync with the live event: Is it being done intentionally to discourage people from listening to Vin Scully on the radio while they watch the game at the stadium or on TV? I […]
Last year, I wrote about spending time with Aaron Eckhart and others while they were making the movie “Bill” here in St. Louis, and how the producers told me that Missouri has been used so seldom as a movie location that it leaves open myriad possibilities for future projects. It would be nice to lure […]
In May, 1986, my wife and I were in Vancouver for the World’s Fair. One of the top attractions was a Japanese mag-lev train, which uses electro-magnets to hover over the rails. The line to get on for a demonstration ride was too long, so we did some other things for a couple of hours […]