Richard's Pretension

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, more people say they are sleepy on New Year’s Day than on any other day of the year. ...

Tis the season for get-togethers with friends and family, and this year I’ve been to a few such including in my own house. In today’s hype...

Back in the ‘60s when I discovered JG Ballard’s off-beat scifi (so much more fun than my school assignments), he instantly became one of m...

Eggnog is prominent on supermarket shelves this time of year. Homemade is vastly better, but I’m much too lazy to make it from scratch th...

There was a Christmas tree in the house every December when I was growing up. I very much liked it as a kid and spent an inordinate amount ...

The usual suspects were on hand for Thanksgiving at my house, which this year also happened to fall on my birthday. 18 altogether of friend...

When Paleolithic painters scrawled images on cave walls 20,000 years ago, critics viewing them by torchlight argued about whether they enl...