The Mystery Spot

I've enjoyed reading Scott Woods' recap of his year in poetry. Don't know if I can do a top ten, but I think I can go back and ...

Holiday schedule is keeping me busy. Decorating the tree tonight. Still not done shopping and my wife's been working on getting Christma...

I like Steve Coogan and was excited to see the film Hamlet 2 on this list. The film was reserved from my local library with ease and my wife...

Finally got up the nerve to take my son out to see a movie. The Wexner Center is having it's annual kids weekend and this afternoon they...

Watched a horrible documentary about The Kinks last night. A wasted hour with horrible production values. At least I did not pay for it. Bes...

So I did the unthinkable and got a twitter account. Hey, Steve Martin's funny! If you want to rag on me after all my diatribes about it,...

This could be the week the Macbook returns. New hard drive is being installed. Watched an interesting documentary called The Art of the Stea...

The progress bar is still as the Disk Warrior does its thing. It has not moved for about thirty six hours now. The number of broken files in...

Finally got downtown to check out the new record store. Spoonful Records has been open for about a month and has a very good selection of v...

Finally got around to watching Crazy Heart last night. I liked better it when it was called Tender Mercies. It's not that I hated Crazy...

This is no secret blog. It's public in that there's nothing going on here that I'd hide from my wife, child, mother or boss. I p...

Last night, during a screening of Sherlock Jr. at the Ohio Theater half a reel of film was shown out of focus, and out of frame. It was also...

Very cool to see Tim Howard made the save, then the throw to and eventual game winning goal by Landon Donovan in yesterday's World Cup m...

I was out shopping at the corporate bookstore I used to work at last night. The first thing I noticed when I walked in was that the octagon ...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has the best use of reptiles in a motion picture I've seen in a long time. Nicholas Cage is a c...

Slam is being a cruel bitch, and I feel fine. Have not made it into the second round in the last two slams. I blame better poets, damn them....

The NCAA basketball tournament started yesterday. In filling out my bracket, I realized how little I know. So picking Marquette to go to the...

How many poor people do you know have a pilot's license, let alone their own plane? Very sad incident. His wife and child get to clean u...

My wife and I went out to see one of her favorite movies on the big screen last night. It's also one of the first movies I saw several t...

I'm rooting for the Gateway Film Center, which is now being operated in partnership with the Wexner Center. The complex has had two man...