Saturday, June 21, 2003

Recommended Reading

Gene Perret is a highly-respected comedy writer. Here's a nice little article in a local newspaper about him. Thanks to Ian Brill for the pointer.

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Repair Work

Just fixed a formatting error that was causing some of the items on this site to appear in the wrong font or wrong font size. If they're still doing that on your screen, you may need to hit the little command on your browser that says Refresh.

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Comic Website of the Day

Richard Jeni never fails to make me laugh, so I thought I'd plug his website.

A few years ago, I was in Las Vegas and I happened to catch him doing an interview on a local show there. He was talking about his appearance in the then-upcoming motion picture, Burn, Hollywood, Burn, and he said approximately the following...

Did you ever see the movie, The Player? This is the exact same movie but without the quality. This is for the discriminating filmgoer who's been wondering, "What if The Player hadn't been a very good movie?"

I thought it was the funniest, most honest thing I'd ever heard anyone say in "plugging" an upcoming film.

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Recommended Reading

John Dean on White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales's Texas Execution Memos. Rough translation: When Bush was governor of Texas, he spent very little time considering whether to grant clemency to prisoners who were about to be put to death. All he did was glance at case summaries prepared by Gonzales — summaries that seem to have more been written to explain why the party had to be put to death than to inform Bush of possibly mitigating circumstances. Since Gonzales seems like a likely Supreme Court nominee, we may hear a lot more about this.

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Gay Times

Good article by Frank Rich about how America is increasingly accepting homosexuality as a way of life. I think staving this off is one battle that the right-wing cannot help but lose...which doesn't mean they aren't going to go down swinging. So to speak.

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Comic Artist Website of the Day

Mike Grell is a helluva nice guy and a helluva good artist...and I hear he's not bad at jousting, which is one of his current passions. That's right: Jousting. If you don't like it, you tell him. Me — I'm always respectful to a guy who jousts. Anyway, here's a link to his website and here's a separate link to a page whereupon he discusses the origin on a fine comic he did for years for DC called Warlord. The comic was always worth reading and so is his little essay about it.

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The Hulk Does Wall Street

Here's a link to a news photo which will instill great confidence in you regarding the future of American business.

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