Bat­tlestar Galac­tica Sea­son 3 is offi­cially done and I have mixed feel­ings about it. It started off with a real bang and I just loved the occu­pa­tion of New Caprica by the Cylons and the ensu­ing struggle/escape from the planet, but once they got off-planet the show started to waver. It started off great with […]

In Florida there’s a guy named Tom Robin­son, and he’s freak­ing related to Genghis Khan. Well, maybe he is. Or so says some out­fit out of Eng­land called Oxford Ances­tors. They’re a firm that is pio­neer­ing a bur­geon­ing field called “bioar­chae­ol­ogy”. It all sounds very sus­pect, espe­cially given what Oxford Uni­ver­sity geneti­cist Bryan Sykes, the founder […]

Accord­ing to Georgina Lan­de­mare, [1. There’s a lit­tle bit of info here about the book that Lan­de­mare wrote here.] the Churchill’s pri­vate cook, the Prime Min­is­ter was a fan French haut cui­sine as well as tra­di­tional Eng­lish dishes like fowl, and roast beef with York­shire pud­ding. He also pre­ferred shell­fish to plain old fish. He […]

In The Anniver­sary Party, Jen­nifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cum­mings (co-writers and direc­tors) try to update the clas­sic Hol­ly­wood line, “Hey every­body, let’s go out to the old barn and put on a show!” Sadly, the barn is not burned with them in it. Not that I really want them to die, but if they […]

It was nearly 4 pm on Feb­ru­ary 4, 1958, when a B-47 bomber, piloted by Major Howard Richard­son and 2 other crew mem­bers, lifted off from Home­stead Air Force Base near Miami, Florida. There mis­sion that day was to prac­tice to fly tan­dem with another B-47 and mimic the require­ments of a wartime attack on […]