Today's Video Link
If it's not already on, turn on the Closed Captioning to see the names of the movies in this haunting montage… […]
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The Rolling Stone interview with Barack Obama. […]
Go See It!
A great slide show of cell phones through the years. You know that neat little one you carry around now? A few years from now, it'll be in a gallery like this one and we can all laugh at how primitive and clunky it was. […]
An Evening of Dick
And this is not Dick Clark we're talking about here. It's Dick, an Oxford undergraduate and Aunt Maggie's nephew…the lead character in a new play by Eric Idle with songs by Mr. Idle and his Spamalot collaborator, John Du Prez. Last night, my friend Mickey Paraskevas took me to the first of four performances they're […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
Mitt Romney to potential running mate: "Do you share my positions?" Potential running mate: "Yes. Last Tuesday's and some of Friday's!" 12:48:02 I am apparently the only person in my neighborhood who's concerned that the crows are getting to be the size of Winnebagos. 14:35:51 […]
Another Dick Clark Story
I turned down doing press and radio interviews about the late Mr. Clark because those things tend to inflate your connection to the deceased and I didn't think I knew him well enough to be quoted that way. But the other day, I was telling a friend a story Dick told me and I thought […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and seventeen in a series… […]
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This Year's Main Political Promise
They may phrase it differently but all the candidates' speeches will roughly come down to this… "We need to make tough choices to slash spending and bring down the deficit! And I'm going to do my damnedest to get elected without specifying a single significant one!" November can't come soon enough. […]
Today's Audio Link
From a 1947 radio show, Gloria DeHaven sings "The Trolley Song" — with a little bit of help from Groucho Marx… […]
More on the New Garfield Comic Book
Yesterday, I told you a bit about the new Garfield comic book I'm writing for the folks at Boom Studios and I showed you what I thought was the cover. Well, I've now learned, that's not the only cover. This first issue has three different covers. The green one above is the main one, the […]
Today's Video Link
I missed this a few months ago when our funny friend Doug Molitor put it up online. And hey, if Newt's really dropping out, I'd better run it now… […]
Recommended Reading
Kevin Drum is right: The U.S. Post Office is not financially secure because Congress won't let it be financially secure. Its critics compare it to a wholly private business that consistently loses too much money but (a) the post office was never supposed to turn a profit and (b) few wholly private businesses need to […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
When it rains, the cats in my back yard look at me like I'm responsible. They have me half-convinced I am. 22:45:30 And over the next two weeks, we get to watch Newt decide that on second thought, Romney would make a great president… 22:46:43 Those TSA agents didn't accept cash to let drugs through. […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and sixteen in a series… […]
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"Bonus" Features (There's Usually No Bonus!)
My good friend Scott Shaw! recently posted the following over on Facebook. Read it and then I'll meet you on the other side to discuss it further… I was just asked to do an interview to be used on an upcoming Warner Bros. DVD…but without compensation. Here was my reply: "Sorry, but no. I am […]
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