Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday: the beginning of the Lenten season. There have been some years when I have observed Lent on this blog.  The first...

 Twenty years ago today, on January 2nd 2004: "Here we go, fast and furious..." I'll be honest: I really never thought this bl...

This line from the 1983 movie WarGames has come to mind in the past couple of days: Except right now it's Elon Musk instead of Dabney C...

Am looking at making a few edits and additions to this blog.  Nothing too drastic though.  I used to change up The Knight Shift's appear...

In trying to return to writing on a regular basis, I'm looking to broaden my reach.  So it is that I've just joined Substack, at chr...

So... the blog has a new look. Not all thanks to me, no doubt.  I had help.  Thanks/blame Brian Fesperman, "Weird" Ed Woody, S...

Like Michael Corleone said: "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in." Last week I posted that it might be goodbye...

Last week I brought two blogs to your attention: Once Upon A Time In My Head by Doug Smith and Life Lessons in Hope, Faith, & Love by...

In the last few days two blogs have come to my attention that I'm no doubt going to be visiting a lot from now on, and all two of The Kn...

Because I have such a love of history, Samuel Morse's first message by telegraph seemed more than a fitting first post to make from my n...

In case anyone's wondering where the list of links went to: I haven't forgotten about it. In fact it'll probably reappear somet...

Pay no attention to... whatever! EDIT 10:53 p.m. EST: This is the first major-scale monkeying-around that I've done to this blog since...

Awright, first person who can tell me what obscure mondo-bizarro film that is from, can buy themselves a candy bar and pretend I got it for ...

For the past week or so, I have noticed that The Knight Shift is receiving an inordinately high number of visits from law firms. All of the...

I'd better get back to blogging in earnest. Stuff might be about to happen. I am returning with some new features, which will be gettin...

Not a new word from The Knight Shift's eclectic proprietor since Friday evening. Well, other than a comment or two on existing posts. L...

I'm talking about those of you who are good friends who have blogs too. Too many of y'all have gotten more than a bit slack of late...

Think the blogosphere needs the Internet? Bah! A dude in Liberia on the west coast of Africa is running a blog devoted to gathering that ...

Hey everyone, say hey to the newest blogger on the planet (along with the probably 500 or so in the past few minutes who also took that firs...

A lot of zaniness piled up on my desk. I'd better get to work. I heared you people behaved yourselves pretty well while I was gone. Fo...