Dear Sars,
How do you help motivate someone you love when they seem to have lost their way?
My husband has been studying for an horrendous exam for the last three years and has already sat it …

Damn Hell Ass Kings is back up!

Let me say right up top that this is a pretty arbitrary list; not every chewy name in baseball history made the cut. Generally speaking, I included names 1) longer than ten letters, and names …

Reader Karen tipped me to the fact that I’m nominated for the Hot Blogger Calendar.   So is Ann Coulter,   though, so: grain of salt.   Thanks to the nominating party for the compliment, …

Maybe, back in 1980, Dressed To Kill got over via shock value.Almost 30 years later, in a world that’s more savvy about trans issues, the “twist,” such as it is, doesn’t do much to hide …

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Strawberry vs. pistachio. This is a hard one for me, actually, because I really like both flavors. Hell, I’ll even have them together in a …

The Bridge is sporting a 70% “fresh” on the Tomato-meter as of this writing, but the 30% who dislike it do so with a virtuous dudgeon. “This could be the most morally loathsome film ever …

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Cookie dough vs. black raspberry/Oregon blackberry. My bias here is obvious — thanks to my mom’s quart-a-week habit back in the winter of ’73, when you …

It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …

Dear Sars,
You’ve helped me with some Procrastination Issues that I wrote about, about two years ago — thank you very much. I have another issue that I hope you can deal with better than I…
‘Cause …