Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...

Every now and then, you’ll hear a magnificent song you’ve never heard before – on the radio, maybe, or in a friend’s car – and be blown...

Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...

Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...

So Jed met Mrs. Landingham in prep school, where his dad was the headmaster and she was dad’s secretary. That makes them the oldest...

It’s hard to recall the artistry and antics (it’s often hard to tell which is which) of Brit rocker Aldous Snow without also thinking of...

Owing to the title of this book, I suppose it’s only fair that I actually discuss beer, at least in passing. I was never much of a fan...

[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered. This attempt at a humor column reads pretty dated now; the concept of conservatism it...

[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered] WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of an impromptu press conference...

(Reprinted from the Courier-Journal, April 29, 1990) You’d have been willing to bet that every last person in the Bomhard Theater last...

Ladies, are you alone in this world? Don’t have a man? In danger of becoming a spinster, an old maid? Well, McCall’s magazine has just...

When I was a boy, grade-school-age, discovering Batman for the first time, I found his enemies thrilling. Out front was, of course, the...

Those of us who are deeply into Star Trek are well-acquainted with the Mirror Universe, a kind of alternate reality that looks almost...

Many are the modes of linguistic expression that brighten the human experience, from the evocative stirrings of sublime poetry to the...

So there’s this great episode of The Orville, which takes place in the 25th century, where a time capsule from the 21st has been dug up...

Many are the innovations that rock musicians have contributed to the art of the guitar - unquestionably more than have been rendered by...

There’s a moment in the old Andy Griffith Show where Andy and Barney are talking about their plans for the weekend – Andy’s date with...

Something has been bugging me for 43 years now. I feel it’s time to speak up, once and for all. It’s 1979. I’m sitting in the movie...

Not all nerds are Word Nerds; but all Word Nerds are about… vocabulary. The Word Nerd loves their words, and wants more. More. More! The...

So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...