Hello, gentle reader!  I'm in Euroland and, with jet lag over after a day, am having fun and eating far too many ice creams!  Hooray!  I'm telling myself that since I walk everywhere, I won't expand like a balloon.  (I

Hello, gentle reader! I'll be away for a little while in southern Euroland, so I won't have much time to blog. I'll probably only be briefly in Internet cafes to check my email since I'll be running everywhere looking at m

Michael Bay is a 10-year-old boy trapped within the body of a 42-year-old Hollywood movie director. Is this bad in terms of mature relationships? Maybe. But is this absolutely perfect for the film "Transformers"? YES

Oh, my!EUTube is . . . er . . rather terrible.Take a look for yourself. The whole web video project is a mind-numbing concoction of Euro-bureau-babble that ends up being as exciting as reading the most recent legislation to regulate the

Here is the source, and here is the notable quote:"Through the last-place finishes, September collapses and every agonizing failure over the past 125 seasons, no team has lost quite like the Philadelphia Phillies. Futility has followed the

The playing with words "rat" and "ratatouille" should only happen in relation to a cute animated film.But this nauseating news story takes the idea and runs with it.  Yuck!  Rats carry diseases, people.

Remember the incoming rubber ducky armada?Here is a follow-up post: The first cute invader has landed on English beaches! Weather-beaten, bleached by the sun and salt, and looking definitely the worse for wear, this tiny plastic Ulysses is still cute

Lots of recent Nerd News, so I've lazily dumped them all here instead of posting separate entries for each one. Here goes:Winston Churchill Banished from New UK History SyllabusIs this a bad joke? Has Churchill really been stricken from th

I did warn you that this blog will be full of Potter-mania for a while!Here is a Potter satire for your Friday amusement:"Progressive Activists Demand that Hogwarts School Become a Wand-Free Zone." 

Here are some YouTube video clips are worth a look. Taiwan showed up for a little while in the EU.At least take a few minutes to listen to Taiwanese President Chen's address (in Mandarin Chinese) to the European Parliament. (The text of the Engli

Oh, the irony!Take a good long look at this: BEIJING (Reuters) - A Briton who has spent years trying to convince foreigners that China is not as repressive as Western media often portray it to be has been ordered to stop publication of his politicall

Funny!Make sure to take a look at this amusing photo caption.  

Why doesn't Japan want to cause stress for tuna fish?Not because anybody's that concerned about the mental health and psychological welfare of the fish.Because stress makes tuna less delicious.  

A little personal note, gentle reader.I'm going away for a few days to visit my family, so I don't know if I'll have much time for blogging. Besides, I will also be going out with my Cinema Sibling and our friends to indulge i

Latest cool Navy news from my Sibling.Yep, the USS Enterprise, a nuclear wessel -- I mean, nuclear VESSEL -- is heading out to the Middle East.Alas, Captain Kirk is not included. 

Ladies and gentlemen, I have finally found a dog worthy of the Hello Kitty doghouse! His name is Heartkun, and he -- of course! -- from Japan.The puppy is a tiny chihuahua with -- I am not joking -- a dark spot on his white fur, and the spot is shape

Believe it!Notice, though, that the photographer was unable to find an actual, real dog willing to be associated with this madness; the dog in the photo is a toy.

Absolutely. No doubt about it. I wonder why I hadn't ever thought about the similarity before! Think about it -- fear, panic, B.S., and the constant threat of getting gored or trampled while you run for your life, always only inches i

Behold the winners! Now, gentle reader, you will get bonus points if you can name the original Seven Wonders of the World too.

This really was the headline in the International Herald Tribune, via the Associated Press.IHT and the AP are reduced to reporting and parroting North Korean PROPAGANDA? Truly pathetic. I suppose I should give them credit for even recog

The new Fiat 500 was launched a few days ago, and it is absolutely adorable.Cuter than the Smart Car?  Cuter than the MINI Cooper? Hard to say, but the new Fiat 500 is an eyeful.   Alas, it is not -- and will not be -- available in the

As a companion to my on-again, off-again series of movie reviews, I'll start giving you my Sibling's movie recommendations.His latest? "Transformers." It has received rather mixed reviews, and I give you two that I enjo

Hey! Today is the big Live Earth music madness. The ostensible purpose for these huge concerts is -- believe it or not -- to raise awareness of global warming. Really! Come on, who hasn't already heard about global warmin

And this is by the New York Times (!!). Enjoy!

I forgot to post this during the recent Fourth of July festivities (sorry, I was terribly -- or terrifically -- distracted by barbecue and ice cream and fireworks), but this is really too good to lose.Oleg Atbashian, the Ukrainian-American wit who ru