Light posting lately. One reason is that Elizabeth and I have been (and are) back in San Francisco for another business/pleasure trip. In ...

Click for the Push In shot. From screenwriter Mike Le ( @DFTVYP ) (Via Go Into The Story )

Click to engage pixelation overthruster. From Hugo Gernsback's Science and Invention , July, 1925. (Via A Great Disorder and If C...

Recently I mentioned that soon you may find me doing some vintage Sherlock Holmes movie blogging here in coordination with the release of t...

According to Google Analytics, since Aug. 29 someone (singular or plural, I don't know) from Leuven , Flemish Brabant, Belgium has retur...

Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL is my "mostly movies" blog, obviously. My main website is older (pre-blogmania), pretty much static...

One of my first university English professors was Francis Irby Gwaltney . "Fig" to his friends, chief among them being his army...

Today is Ray Bradbury's birthday. His 90th. Whoa. Los Angeles has been communally celebrating with Ray Bradbury Week . As for me, I se...

A literary hero of my youth, and a writer whose best work I admire on different levels now. I've met him a couple of times at writer con...

I'm mentioned in an article with Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, and Nicholas Meyer. Also Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude...

I — along with cartoonists Mike Russell and Bill Mudron — had something to do with "Take My Love," the little Firefly/Serenity ...