At left: Is it--? Yes it IS! It's Phil Spector as Santa Claus! Take cover! NOTE: This is one of my favorite posts, although my blog...

Stealie flag is from Disc-O-Pizza . Assorted quick notes on this busy and beautiful Saturday morning -- Our sordid South Carolina sti...

There is a scene in David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME , wherein Bianca O'Blivion removes the umm, mutated-videotape from James Woods...

Earl Palmer, by Ken Hively of the Los Angeles Times. ~*~ I have just learned that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer and extraordinary...

Hung jury. Mistrial. Five months down the toilet. A woman's life doesn't mean shit, if you can successfully trash her reputation...

Yes, after a week went by, I knew. I grit my teeth; I cursed. I bayed at the moon. But I knew. And today, we found out for sure. The ju...

Left: Phil Spector and his attorney, Linda Kenney Baden. Photo from Reuters. Some wit over on Darwin Exception quoted Robert Duvall in A...

Left: Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin, aka Punkin Pie, from The Darwin Exception. The Phil Spector murder trial is winding down, and I a...

Left: Coptic Icon, Feast of the Assumption St Menas Church, Old Cairo. (artists and dates unknown) Well, I meant to go to Mass on my Hol...

Apparently, a Hollywood Madam named Baby Doll Gibson is testifying for the defense in the Phil Spector murder trial. Why? Well, she is goi...

Watching Laura Linney in BREACH the other night, I wondered how someone could become so suspicious and agitated, while never actually frown...