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Saturday at Barnes & Noble in Roanoke, Va., I saw my first copies of Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 , a Roc paperback edited by Ellen Datlo...

From this recent CNN.com commentary by Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who was President Reagan's political director: The battle to b...

For those who haven't seen it yet, here's the best Onion article in some time. Among my favorite passages: "Fools!" sai...

I admire this without reservation .

She's not in one of my classes, but I had to brag: Frostburg State University track star Sumer Rohrs just won her third consecutive nat...

At his blog, anonymous Script Magazine contributor Mystery Man on Film has posted a link to a long-buried treasure for Indiana Jones fans:...

What caused the two separate booms that rattled Californians in early March? Not weather, an earthquake, a meteor or an aircraft , apparen...

Barry Johnson passes along this truly sick and twisted creation , which nevertheless is utterly Safe For Work.

Buddy Moore alerted me to Columbia Closings , one depressing if addictive blog for us natives of the South Carolina Midlands.

Announced today: Sydney is one of 14 faculty members just elected to the Faculty Senate at Frostburg State University. Her term's up in...

Judging from the faculty-search pages alone, which university would you guess has a College of Engineering? Frostburg State University , or ...

In this interview with The Toronto Star , Neil Gaiman says Coraline was partially inspired by "The New Mother" by Lucy Clifford (...

Co-editor Gardner Dozois gave us contributors the OK to share John Jude Palencar's cover art for The Dragon Book , to be published in ha...

This article by Martin Lindstrom in the Jan. 4 issue of Parade includes some trivia about Corona and lime: The Corona-and-lime ritual date...

This is the back cover of Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair, a 1963 paperback original novel from Bantam. (I bought it in October f...

The most appropriate response to David Fincher's movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may be the three-word first sentence of Keit...

Whatever else it is, John Patrick Shanley's movie of his Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play Doubt is an acting tour de force. On Broadway...

Here's a Reuters report on Sunday's service at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit (site of Rosa Parks' funeral), at which the ...

The Associated Press reminded us Monday that Dec. 1 was the anniversary of the opening of the world's first drive-in service station, in...

I just learned that my colleague John Wiseman, emeritus professor of history at Frostburg State University, once was a cause celebre. In hi...