I've received a couple of e-mails from folks asking what I have against polygamy. One even came from someone who is adamant that gays should not be allowed to wed but thinks one man should be able to be married to as many women as will have him at one time. Tell you the truth, […]
The best Italian restaurant I ever found, Zito's, closed on Pico Boulevard (just west of Westwood) in 1969, the same year I graduated high school. Those two events may have been connected because Jo Anne Zito, daughter of the owners, was in my class and she graduated at the same time. With no evidence whatsoever, […]
Not long ago, someone unearthed a color home movie of the Three Stooges. It was shot at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City on July 1, 1938 by a gent named George Mann who was half of a comedy dance team called Barto and Mann. Mr. Mann and his wife Barbara Bradford also appeared in […]
The family of Don Markstein is reporting his death at age 65 due to respiratory failure following a prolonged illness. Don was a mover 'n' shaker in science-fiction, animation and comic book fandom in the sixties and after. I believe I first met him in person (as opposed to the correspondence which preceded that moment) […]
I just saw this video of Rick Santorum being asked about his position on Gay Marriage. Usually when he's asked this, he goes into this silly riff of saying, well, if you let anyone marry anyone then you'll have people marrying multiple partners and cocker spaniels and household appliances and such. In the video, he […]
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WonderCon is next weekend so the next few days will probably be filled with me rushing to clear the time and prep, occasionally pausing to foolishly wonder if there's any way I can get the event postponed a week or two. I know folks who average two or three conventions a month and I don't […]
Little Joe's was a very famous Italian restaurant in Los Angeles. And it was located just where you'd expect to find a very famous Italian restaurant: In the middle of Chinatown. The institution started life in 1897 as the Italian-American Grocery Company at the corner of 5th and Hewitt Streets. One account says its founder-owner […]
A great artist has passed. In a way, two have: Under his own signature, Jean Giraud illustrated some of the finest adventure comic stories of the 20th century, most notably the wildly-popular adventures of Lieutenant Blueberry. (The Lieutenant was later promoted to higher ranks.) And under the name Moebius, Giraud drew surreal, imaginative tales of […]
The boycott of J.C. Penney to drop Ellen DeGeneres has officially flopped. http://t.co/OVCWww4A # […]
This is amazing. One day recently on the beach in Rio de Janeiro, about thirty dolphins inexplicably beached themselves. The dolphins would have perished but folks who happened to be on the beach at that moment ran down and shoved the creatures back into the water. For more on this story read this after you […]
Ross Douthat thinks it's over, too. He also believes (and says it better than I did) that barring some unforeseen scandal, Mitt Romney has the nomination sewn up and the press is making it seem tenuous because the press likes the horse race. […]
Richard Skipper is an entertainer who has been known to impersonate and also write about Carol Channing and Judy Garland. So he knows a little about great women of the musical theater. He just wrote a nice piece about my friend Shelly Goldstein, who is often mentioned on this blog. […]
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Here are 10 Reasons Obama Will Be Re-Elected. And here from the same website are 10 Reasons Obama Will Not Be Re-Elected. Take your pick. […]