For some reason, versions of this with good sound to go along with good performances have been hard to find on YouTube, but I've finally...

Spoilerific musings on Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef ! :: Elise is freakishly annoying. She's not a bad cook, but she's lazy...

Laundry. Do you have a set "laundry day", or do you take the "Huh, laundry pile's gettin' pretty big and/or I'm o...

I've been enjoying the "Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day" feature over at AICN for quite a while now, even if it's curated...

I never liked Charles Dickens. My first encounter with Dickens was in seventh grade, when we read A Christmas Carol . This was OK, as tho...

Some thoughts on a bit of pop culture stuff of late: :: Here is actor Henry Cavill as Superman in the new movie about Superman, titled......

IBM Gouda Cutter At the Cheese Boutique , originally uploaded by BuffaloPundit . Alan Bedenko posted this photo in his Flickr st...

Today at work, when I went to my break, I sat down with a legal pad to do a bit of outlining. Now, I've never been one to do a lot of ou...

Two hundred fifty-five! I've always liked the number 255. It goes back to when I used to noodle around with my old Commodore VIC-20, wri...

I know, two posts about the Buffalo News in one day...but seriously, BuffNews , what in the heck is this ? Political reporter/columnist Bo...

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Cracked.com's 5 Biggest Promotional Disasters lists five promotional offers that companies ran that ...

Day late, but I have a good excuse! Really! This week we have a shortened word count -- only fifty words, plus our prompt -- but how hard c...

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything more unseemly than last week's column in the Buffalo News by editor Margaret Sullivan, in...

Page One: The Lord of the Rings , originally uploaded by Jaquandor . I started "Page One" with The Hobbit , so here is p...

Sorry, folks, but yesterday was one of those "Wow, do I got a lot goin' on!" days. Not a bad day at all, just not a day that l...

A reminder, folks: Ask Me Anything! August 2011 is underway. Post questions in comments on this post , or via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Tum...

So, how hot is it where you are? And how do you cope? Are you a fan of heat, or is heat something you endure because you like most other as...

I don't know what it is, but for some reason, in the warmer months my reading tastes gravitate strongly toward science fiction (and the ...

It's that time again -- Ask Me Anything! This used to be a February-only thing, but seeing as how it seems silly to only do it once a ...

Linkage (concentrating this week on blogs I haven't perused in a while): :: Its pretty simple idea, an old story. A magic lamp that g...