So we were sit­ting around our apart­ment in Waco, TX., circa 1993. Tay­lor was read­ing by the win­dow, I was work­ing on my Mac Clas­sic at the table, Joel was watch­ing tele­vi­sion, Alan was gone. A cat was meow­ing loudly out­side, very loudly, we could all hear it. That went on for a few minutes […]

In all mat­ters con­sti­tu­tional, the Supreme Court rules on the laws of the land. As of now, Chief Jus­tice John Roberts pre­sides over a court con­sist­ing of him­self, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Gins­burg, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito. It was under John Jay ((Jay was nominated […]

About a year ago me and the fam­ily were at a local cat­fish joint here in Dal­las when, lo and behold, in walked an honest-to-God liv­ing musi­cal leg­end — Don Hen­ley, drum­mer for The Eagles. He was with some other guy, no idea who, and looked really old. Don, not the other guy. Any­way, I […]

There are many impor­tant things going on in the world today — the Iraq war, hor­ren­dously high gas prices, a ramping-up pres­i­den­tial cam­paign and other stuff. But this may be the most earth-shattering event of all : Which was a bet­ter human side­kick for Blue of Blue’s Clues, Joe or Steve? Steven Burns, [1. You can […]

About a Boy, based on the novel by Nick Hornby, is really about two boys, Will (Hugh Grant), a thir­ty­ish sex­ist unem­ployed lout who lives off of song roy­al­ties from his father, and Mar­cus (Nicholas Holt), a twelve-year-old just try­ing to make it through school help his depressed mother Fiona (Toni Col­lette) be happy. Will, […]