Riffle

No, no no. You're not in the way. Telegraph.co.uk: Police hunt supermarket bottom sniffer. [Video available at link: it's creepy....

I realize that, as an American liberal, I'm supposed to hate Christmas and want to wage war on and defile it. But, of course, I don...

Nowadays nostalgia is a paltry thing. TV, notoriously, builds itself on nostalgia for incidents that happened just a moment ago. In commer...

A few things I've found funny recently (in one meaning of "funny" or another), from short to long. "Dexter" is Latin...

Norman Rockwell, who is often close to kitsch but undoubtedly skilled (and appraisal of whom yo-yos quite a bit) painted from photographs o...

There's one person who performed in-studio during the same TV program on which the Sex Pistols made their first TV appearance; appeared...

A correction at washingtonpost.com : "A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song de...

Limited exposure to Scottish TV programming hadn't left me wanting much more. What's that you say? ... A program about Scottish hi...

1) I always presumed that the flavoring agent in Earl Grey tea was bergamot oil, from the mint-like herb (it has square stems like mint!) b...

Those are watches in there. But it's not a watch case. What is that contrivance pictured above? It's not, strictly speaking, a watc...

Rockbox Blackjack on the Clip I've been in transit a lot recently and therefore listening to even more MP3s than usual. I mainly rely on...

I'm (meaning Riffle is) a bit snowed under here, metaphorically. But McSweeney's does a service with this retro-view of Gizmodo-st...

If only ... The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town, And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman, And ilka wife cries, "Auld Ma...

Roger Ebert says this 1980 piece of his featuring Milton Berle and Lou Jacobi hasn't been online until now . Berle: "I had a w...

= 1) She Wrote (-ish) a Book : I predicted ( with several good reasons ) that Palin's book would be rife with errors. Now that AP has o...

World Leaders in Berlin at the Fall of the Wall Celebrations 1) The celebrations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, w...

HBO's Bored to Death , which grew on me as the season progressed, just ended with another funny episode featuring guests John Hodgman, ...

I've drastically reduced shopping at Whole Foods. I had to stop there yesterday, though, for something only they sell. I decided to b...

I offer another ramble in the magnificent Old Bailey Archives . From 3rd July, 1771 trial of three men: William Leegroves and John Baili...

A teacher in Texas is suing to avoid being fingerprinted because, she asserts, fingerprints are the Mark of the Beast from Revelations. I...