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. […]
I keep getting e-mails asking me if I still think Romney's going to be the Republican nominee. Some seem to feel it's becoming evident he's not and I don't know where they're getting that unless it's that some news outlets are straining to keep the "contest" exciting. For the recent Super Tuesday, you can find […]
I am to cooking what Lindsay Lohan is to SNL-hosting but I do enjoy learning how those who can cook cook. I've taken to "tuning in" to the adventures at Cookus Interruptus, which is a site featuring short sitcom-like cooking videos. There's a continuing cast of folks, some of whom teach you how to make […]
The Hungry Tiger was a chain of seafood restaurants around Southern California. At one point, there were forty-one of them, including one in Westwood Village, another one on Sepulveda near LAX, and yet another on La Brea just South of Hollywood Boulevard. Those were the ones I went to, and I'm not sure why because […]
Today was International Womens Day…or as Rush Limbaugh calls it, Thursday. # […]
My former writing partner Dennis Palumbo has some wise words for writers about dealing with deadlines. Personally, I find the best way to deal with deadlines is to stop worrying about them and write the damned script. […]
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