Human beings, in general, can get terrified of the unknown pretty easily.  On an evolutionary level, it makes sense.  By avoiding risks and refraining from making uninformed decisions, the species will survive to reproduce.  On the other...

I recently read and reviewed The Monster’s Corner edited by Christopher Golden for Bookspotcentral.com, and, on my own time, I’ve been reading through Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein series.  While some might be inclined to suspect that this fascination...

I’m not a gamer.  I never have been. The last gaming system that I owned (and still do, oddly enough) was the Super Nintendo.  I spent a whole summer mowing lawns and saving the money to buy...

  I’m not a gearhead.  I’m not even close to qualifying.  My own vehicle is old and kind of shabby, but it has a name and it’s functional, so I’m pretty happy with that.  That doesn’t mean...

I was recently surprised with tickets to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra kick off this year’s tour by a couple of friends of mine.  I’m not sure if they actually knew whether I liked the band or whether they...

I am kind of a TV junkie.  I’ll admit that.  There are several shows that I watch frequently and have a tendency to recommend to anyone who’ll hold still long enough to express even the barest hint...

I’m going to do something in this column that I never really thought I would do, and that’s talk a little bit about politics.  The reason that I didn’t think I would ever say anything about them...

The movies a person likes to watch can be a very personal thing.  Not everyone is as comfortable with their guilty pleasures as I am, which I can understand to a certain extent. Still, it seems to...

It’s never been any secret that I am a total animation geek.  I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I realized how much I enjoyed animation, or even that point at which I started to understand that...

Music has always been a big part of my life.  When I was a starry-eyed little sprocket, we didn’t watch much TV, but we had a record player.  My mom had albums by John Denver and Cat...