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I’m a giver, which is why I’m always happy to share my life experiences.… Read full post »

One of the best domestic family outtings our family ever enjoyed was a quick mini-vacation slash college visit, travelling from LA through the Central California Coast and beyond.

             We stuck with the plan to drive up despite a la/… Read full post »

My First Cousin twice removed--once forcibly--lives in the sleepy Southern town of Dimwitty in a 20^th century Doublewide with his 19-year-old sister/wife and his 18^th century politics. He’s given me permission to… Read full post »

When my wife and first married, we often gave each other romantic gifts. One memorable Valentine’s Day, for instance, it was an expensive, sexy, see-through Parisian negligee. I got her something nice, too. 

As we’ve gotten older, however, the gifts have become more pragmatic than r… Read full post »

As everyone who’s heard a “good beat, easy to dance to” knows, broadcast legend Dick Clark died this week. Clark’s fame began with a popular dance show in Philadelphia called "American Bandstand." He became a pop icon and the man credited with giving rock and roll its b… Read full post »

I'm writing and posting this quickly, before it slips my mind. So fair warning: This is… Read full post »

Most American football fans are against excessive violence and pay-for-injury bounties. The League’s punishments are justified. But Futbol fans should not gloat.

I will not silently sit by and listen to gross canards from haughty Soccer Supremacists. One wrote me to condemn American football v… Read full post »

John Corcoran has been an entertainment reporter and is a seven time Emmy winning movie critic on TV in Hollywood, Washington, DC, and Boston . 

 About half way through 21 Jump Street I had a revelation. Gross out Comedy--like Killer Bacteria newly resistant to antibiotics--is… Read full post »

  What’s all this fuss about Rick Santorum wanting to ban birth control?

You may have read that the Sweater-vest Yenta from the Great State of Regression has declared open season on lady parts.  Nothing new about that.  This is roughly the same policy as the Roman Catholic Chur… Read full post »

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Guest Columnist

Paul E. Almonds

I am Chief Spokesman for MOBPAC, a contortion of underworld organizations using honestly filched money to determine the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election. We at MOBPAC are delighted to report our endorsed candidate, former Speaker-of-th… Read full post »

Yoga is bad for you. Who knew?

Who suspected that Yoga’s most famous position, “Downward Facing Dog,” could leave you sick as one? Or that Savasansa—the “Yoga Corpse Pose,” might be the last pose you ever take? Who would ever dream the oh-so-healthful way of exerc… Read full post »

By John Corcoran, Jr.

NORTH POLE, (Dec 22): Here’s the latest from the North Pole. As reported here in July, Santa Claus Industries laid off more than 50 Elves last summer, citing recessionary pressures for the cutback.  A wildcat strike by remaining workers fizzled in early September, ho… Read full post »

Where I Live: Outside Los Angeles, CA.

Where I Vacated: Kennebunkport, ME.

Why Kennebunkport? Because I so admire George H.W. Bush, who also Summers there.

Categorization of Last Comment: Cynicism with a pinch of Irony.

Real reason I went there: Relatives, lobstuhs, and the ceaseless need to… Read full post »

In an alternate Universe this week, in a mystical land called Augusta, Supernatural beings are playing a game I am unfamiliar with in an event called The Masters. I will spend this weekend in my own Universe, an overflowing storage room and garage, tossing stuff out.There is one set of items… Read full post »

Writing is as much a craft as an art. As a result, most well-thought-out pieces you see here are rarely written in real time. The good stuff is seldom dashed off. The best reads are polished like a gem—massaged to the point of near perfection, but set free before the… Read full post »

These days an automobile journey of any distance begins with a cost estimate at a licensed petroleum emporium. We are blessed with a number of such venues nearby, and word recently raced around the neighborhood that Shell had just scored a new batch of Unleaded ’11. Sure… Read full post »

John Corcoran has been an entertainment reporter and on-air movie critic on TV in Washington, DC, Boston, and most recently, Hollywood. He likes to keep his hand in now and then.

There’s a trick critics play on readers that you may not know about. It’s/… Read full post »

I like nuts and have the bestest recipe for them ever. Bur first, this…

The two most famous “nuts” in American history are “Mr. Peanut,” and the one-word answer uttered by General Anthony McAuliffe to a German commander requesting his surrender during WWII’s Ba… Read full post »

  Craig Ferguson opened his show Monday on a dour note saying he would not be doing Charlie Sheen jokes. He referenced the Bedlam Insane Asylum, built outside outside London in the 13^th Century.

                          … Read full post »

For more than a decade John Corcoran covered the Academy Awards for KABC-TV and later KCAL television. He was more than happy to not have to do so this year. Instead he found next year's Host.

I… Read full post »

My Dad never fired a gun in anger nor for sport. But for several months in his 25th year, he spent time in the company of those who did. Specifically a half dozen young men whose job it was to load, aim and discharge .50 caliber machine guns for the express… Read full post »

Special Guest Column

By JayCee the Boxer*

            Congratulations on your Westminster triumph, Scottish Deerhound, from a dog who wouldn’t have your career for all the Silver Bowls in Madison Square Garden. I&rsquo/… Read full post »

An Open response to an Old Guy from a really old guy

“It's official: I'm old! Thank you Grammy Awards!!”-- Tinkerertink69”

  You may want to take a gander at his post. Funny dude, claims to be old. Took one for the team last night, stayed up late and watched/… Read full post »