by J.S. Holland Happy 4th of July! In no particular order and off the top of my head, these are some of the things I'm working on for th...

"You loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win. You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the dis...

Just two months short of two years ago, on September 1, 2009 , I instituted this blog as a side outlet for that special body of subjects nea...

One month ago I issued a memo about my refusal to co-exist in the same space with CFL bulbs, and now comes some information that would seem...

Egmont Key , a somewhat distant island in the keys off Florida's gulf coast, has had an illustrious past - much of it military. During t...

Lately, I've been watching Stanley Kubrick's The Shining with the subtitles on, and just noticed that in the final scene where Jack...

During the years when I was actively in the antiques biz, ceramics and art pottery was one of my specialties, and my holy grails were to obt...

In July 1909, the SS Waratah disappeared without a trace somewhere pff the coast of South Africa between Durban and Cape Town. There were 2...

I'm looking forward to the next project by TRON Legacy director Joseph Kosinski - it's called Oblivion , and it's coming out as...

One of my favorite films of all time, William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration , is all but unheard of today even though it won a ...

From the great historical archives of the Chemical Heritage Foundation : antique editions of Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665) and van...

Here in what Art Bell called "The Quickening", we constantly receive new and shocking quantum revelations of how the world we are ...