Okay, I actually caved, got up off my butt and paid $8.00 to see a movie in the theater.  I rarely go to the movies. Too pricey, nothing I really want to see, and I'm at the age where I've turned into Huey Lewis's principal from Back to the Future.  Remember him?  With the immortal movie line: "You kids are just too darn loud?"  Yeah, that's me in ( Read more... )

It's come to my attention that some of my readers never learned about the Aegean Bronze Age in school.  Let me remedy that by making a video recommendation.  Now, I own several excellent films and many books on the subject, but this particular documentary series and its companion book rate among the best.

Michael Wood's 1985 series In Search of the ( Read more... )