Jim Leff's Slog

As Chowhound grew, so did the moanings about its decay. We opened in July of 1997, and we weren't far into autumn before I started heari...

Shortly after 9/11, noticing that Middle Eastern restaurants were empty and anti-Moslem bigotry was becoming an obvious problem, I published...

Nearly all the terrorist attacks I can remember have been clumsy and hapless. It's important to take stock of that fact on days like tod...

The purpose of computers is to do work, so I can work less. Whenever your app makes me work to serve your app rather than the other wa...

If you're worried, that means you don't have an actual problem. You're just creating gratuitous drama for yourself. People wit...

Here's what nobody realizes, because nobody's reporting on it: the youth of the Middle East (who are demographically overwhelming, a...

The following video was shot long prior to Les Blank's death, but in it Werner Herzog offers a perfect short (three minute) eulogy: ...

I've written some sketches of friends, acquaintances, and interesting people here over the years, and they seem to have been popular. So...

Note: some of the links below aren't working, as Les' web site has been overwhelmed with visitors (I can hear the sardonic chortle f...

In over-eulogizing people, we don't do them proper justice. Roger Ebert was our most-respected film critic, and he deserved great credit...