Well on and on and on and on I can't stop y'all 'til the early morn' So rock y'all tick tock y'all to the bea...

I realise that there is an awful lot of things that Peter , age 8, may never really grow up with that his dad, 40, took for granted. The no...

My father-in-law Sir Peter Siddell died peacefully Monday, nearly three years after being diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor , and nea...

Like a lot of people, I heard the news about Steve Jobs dying via my Apple computer – in my case, my iPhone. There’s been quite the reactio...

The thing about the late, great Harvey Pekar is that he saw day-to-day life could be as exciting as Batman battling the Joker. He was reall...

Alex Chilton is dead, and lordy does it hurt to type those words. For a certain stripe of pop fan, he was kind of like our Bob Dylan or Leon...

So the wife noted recently how we managed to have a relatively illness-free winter down under. Whereupon I, of course, immediately got struc...

I'll have more Melbourne stuff soon, but in honour of the late, great Patrick Swayze, I feel inspired to re-post a blog entry from 200...

Raise a glass to John Hughes , who crafted the movies that defined the 1980s for many of us and died suddenly today at just 59. For those o...

• Michael Jackson, part 2: It's hard to explain, for those who weren't impressionable teens in the 1980s, how utterly everywhere MJ...

Good god, what a morning to work in a newsroom. There was a lot of last-minute shuffling, rearranging and shock as there is only when the bi...

Winter has clenched its icy fingers around Aotearoa this last week or so and I am cold. Brr. • I had kind of vaguely heard they were remakin...

John Updike is dead , and I think today the title of America's greatest living writer is vacant. I first discovered Updike right around...

Random notes for a random Wednesday: • I like cool movie posters. I like the Polish people. Thus, this awesome website featuring 50 Incredib...

Entirely random rainy Sunday-morning thoughts ...Well, what a lousy week THAT was for our wallet. In addition to it turning out we needed a...

In tribute: The manly art of Charlton Heston ...So did I mention I was going on a week's vacation? More on that soon (we had a nifty cam...

30 Days of Bloggery: Heath Ledger 1979-2008 Wow. Some celebrity deaths you expect -- Britney, anyone? -- some you don't. I was an admire...

30 Days of Bloggery: The greatest New Zealander More than a week of mass national mourning ended today as Sir Edmund Hillary was laid to re...

30 Days of Bloggery: Sir Edmund Hillary 1919-2008 "It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary N...

Life totally sucks sometimes department Sad, sad and shocking news to learn comics artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly of a heart attack yes...