We try to keep down the TV time in our house, but it occurs to me even if my kids are watching a lot less than I did at their…
What seems like a gazillion years ago, I started a fan page dedicated to Superman. Originally it was just a few static pages devoted to my favorite artists and stories,…
The kids continue to be obsessed with chess, and they’re getting better all the time. This past Monday, they participated in a simultaneous chess demonstration with Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg at…
At some point in the last few months, I noticed everything happened in 1974. Well, okay so maybe not everything, and certainly not everything good. In the headlines that year,…
I don’t know what’s worse, failing to update this site with no posts for months at a time, or ending that drought with an act of shameless self-promotion. But hey,…
Somehow we’ve turned into a chess household. Jason, Scott and even Grace are playing chess, talking chess, planning chess, reading about chess pretty much all the time. Actually, Jason goes…
As noted in an earlier post, the highly-rated (and Hugo nominated) TV movie adaptation of Martin Caidin’s Cyborg aired in March, 1973, selling its audience on the outlandish notion of…
Lately I’ve been trying to keep the kids entertained with card tricks. One of them involves making a chosen card appear on demand, and to make it more fun I…
It’s likely the first images I ever saw of Batman were created by Carmine Infantino. Sometimes I try to remember my first exposure to the character and I’ve just about…
Well, here we are. Another year, another embarrassingly long lapse between posts. Just to add insult to injury, I managed to lose a few recent posts during a change of…
