CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL– AFTERMATH by Leigh Lundin Minutes after the verdict came in the Casey Anthony case, a stunned defense team held a low-key press conference. In their statement, defense attorneys told us who killed Caylee Anthony. Here’s how I got there. Tricoteuses You’ve heard of the tricoteuses during The Terror following the French Revolution? […]

BITS AND PIECES by John M. Floyd In the summer of 1981, when I acquired my first VCR and our first cable TV hookup at our house, I started doing something that would continue for the next thirty years. I started videotaping and saving certain scenes in movies that I really liked. (I also taped […]

ROAD TRIP (part two) by Steven Steinbock Click on picture to see more detail. In last week’s column I told you about the first half of my epic cross-country road trip from one end of Interstate 90 to the other. Our trip took us through Massachusetts, upstate New York, along the southern shore of Lake […]

TRUE CRIME VS . FICTION by Deborah Elliott-Upton John Douglas There’s no doubt more than a few true crime stories are out there masquerading as fiction. For those of us who abhor the knowledge some people have little regard for life, why are we still tempted by the daily doses of true crime facts littering […]

WEASEL WORDS by Rob Lopresti Last week I happened to quote a Seattle Times article about a beast called a martin. My friend Zeke chastised me for misspelling marten. James replied that I had merely been keeping bad company, since I had accurately copied the Times’ mistake. Then both of them indulged in horrible puns […]

SEXY! THRILLING! TRAILERS GALORE! by Melodie Johnson Howe I love the old black and white movie trailers where they wrote in big script across the screen words such as Daring! Sexy! Brutal! Heart Stopping! Spine Tingling! Then the deep male voice sounding oddly like a Presbyterian minister spoke the words as if the audience couldn’t […]

FIREWORKS by James Lincoln Warren Happy Birthday, U.S.A. Yesterday, a friend of mine, Carlos Gonzalez, sent a message on a listserv I subscribe to celebrating the American Declaration of Independence as the most momentous event in world history. Carlos was raised in Castro’s Cuba and has a deeper and more personal appreciation of what it […]