The Fies Files

In my never-ending effort to fill my cultural gaps (we all have them), last night I watched for the first time Billy Wilder's "The ...

 It's 80F (27C) with clear blue skies in northern California this afternoon. A perfect day! That's a problem. It's the middle of...

Just as trees must fall in a forest, traditions must carry on, even if there's nobody there to hear or see them. As I have every Christm...

Cleaning up my studio today, I found a pad at the bottom of a pile of paper that was my "To Do" list on October 9, 2017, the day m...

Very nice to wake up to on a Monday: the new Brazilian edition of "Mom's Cancer" is getting some press, which publisher DarkSi...

IF Biden and Harris hang on to win, the United States isn’t just getting a new President and VP in January. We will also get: A State Depart...

I just replied to an extremely long and detailed e-mail interview for  Folha de São Paulo, which I'm told is one of the leading newspap...

This feels weird. Sunday night The Weather Channel broadcast an episode of "Storm Stories" that included me and others who made it...

Last June, I teased that I had done something cool and couldn't talk about it. Now I can. This Sunday, October 11, I'll be appearing...

Add to the list of things I didn't know I'd be doing when I woke up this morning: appearing on the PBS NewsHour tonight. I just got ...

Flashback Friday! Karen was cleaning out her office when she found this notepad in the bottom of a box. It's from my days as a newspaper...

 A couple of days ago, I did a live web thingy with the Pop Culture Classroom, the nice people who are affiliated with the Denver Pop Cultur...

This article in Variety may be the stupidest piece of journalism I've read in a long time. It concludes that Comic-Con@Home, the San...