As you've probably gathered from the trailer, this year's "Poor Things" is a reimagining of Frankenstein, with Emma Stone ...

How many books does it take to be considered "well-read?"  I'll go to my grave, considering myself just the opposite.  Part of...

Melissa Navia quickly became a fan favorite on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.  Something of a newcomer, fans didn't really know much abo...

 It's supposed to be 12 degrees on Monday.  If I'm not back by noon, send Han out after me. 

In the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke introduces the character of Moonwatcher, a proto-human and the alpha male in a tribe of ...

 Nero ruled Rome from 54 to 68.  For those of us born in the sixties, that's quite a number.  He was generally considered a horrible per...

 1985.  Ruben Anderson is appointed to the Mississippi State Supreme Court.  My dad decided to have a dinner party in his honor.  My dad was...

If you're curious, Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning: "remember you will die."  You see the expression in the bible, Sira...

Technically, my first theater was the Lamar downtown because they had Disney movies.  The very first movie I can remember seeing was Toby Ty...

 In 1954, Japanese studio Toho, released Gojira, a copy of America's Beast From 20,000 fathoms, remade with political and strong anti-nu...

In the 1920s, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History purchased an extensive collection of Native American artifacts from Colon...

 In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, we are told that Harker procures a Carfax Abbey in Whitby, London, England, for his client, Count ...

I really have no adequate explanation for this. It's a lap dancing spider man with red bikini bottoms entertaining office workers which ...

Re-posted From The Constant Monster Blog When I was a kid, between the years of 1971 and 1975, WAPT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Jackson Missi...

I've started a new blog. This one is dedicated to one of my favorite subjects, Monsters! It features Movie Monsters, Cryptozoology, Mys...

I hope everybody can see this in all the various formats they read the blog from At first I thought maybe it was just an optical illusion, b...

LaReeca Rucker's really cool article about UFO's in Mississippi , the recent death of Eric Beckjord , and former astronaut Edgar Mit...

Since all my Lost friends have commented on the season finale, I thought I'd throw in my two cents plus inflation. Last year's seas...