Mushroom Soup Tuesday (and Maybe Wednesday)

The next couple days are going to be incredibly full of Things I Must Do, including many I want to do, like tonight's June Foray Celebration at the Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. So this is notice that I may not post much here for a while. Before I go…

The Emmys got fairly low ratings last Sunday night. I was going to write a post on why that might be but my friend Ken Levine went and did it for me. I do think a big factor is that America is simply getting tired of award shows the same way it got tired of beauty pageants. They'll tune in if they think something way out-of-the-ordinary might happen but not if it's just the usual multi-hour ritual. What was the big news out of the show Sunday night? That Stephen Colbert and others made a lot of nasty comments about Donald Trump? Hey, I like nasty comments about Donald Trump and even I wouldn't sit through a three-hour show to hear ten minutes of them.

I don't think I agree with all of Ken's bitchy/snarky review of the telecast but I did a speed-watch of the proceedings thanks to TiVo so I may have been too forgiving.

I have no idea what Donald Trump's new verbal attacks on North Korea will lead to. Gathering from the online punditry I'm reading so far, neither does anyone else — and that includes "in the White House."

A while back here on the blog, I answered a question from someone who wanted to know how the great cartoonist Jack Davis pronounced his last name. I said it was just "Davis" — the obvious way. I added that I'd never met anyone named Davis who pronounced it "Day-vees." I have since heard from several people who have met someone named Davis who pronounced it "Day-vees" and even some people named Davies who pronounced it "Day-vis." Well, Jack pronounced it "Day-vis."

Much to do. I will be back to you after I've done some of it.