Gary Dunaier wants to know… What's the deal with the box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes in the corner of the picture of Davy Jones that you ran in your blog? (The weird thing is that I remember, back in the day, seeing an image of a box of Kellogg's Puffa Puffa Rice cereal in the […]
If you want a bargain, grab this now. Someone at Amazon will probably wise up any minute and realize they can't sell you a whole hardcover collection of Mickey Mouse newspaper strips by Floyd Gottfredson for five bucks. This is a handsome volume produced by the Fantagraphics folks — the first volume of a series. […]
How doubly-sad to hear that Davy Jones of the Monkees has died of a heart attack at the age of 66. That would be just plain sad at any time because he was a talented fellow. The Monkees were a manufactured, artificially-created band in that a bunch of execs sitting behind desks decided there should […]
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The Field Poll, which usually does a decent job of measuring opinions in California, finds a 25-point gap between those who approve of Gay Marriage and those who don't. A 25-point gap! That's especially significant because as far as I know, public sentiment has only ever moved in one direction on this issue. If you […]
Teller (of Penn &…) reveals secrets of being a great magician. For some reason, he leaves out the one about making sure the saw is sharp enough when you cut the lady in half. That was the thing I always got wrong. […]
Our friend Shelly Goldstein has a story to tell you. Pay close attention, kids… […]
Today's potatoes are from Laverelle Stecklien, Blackfoot, ID. # Rick Santorum should be worried. His presidential campaign was just posthumously baptized by the Mormons. # […]
Speaking of folks on the radio: Throughout February, regular listeners of Radio Rashy, the weekly podcast of writer Paul Dini and magician-actress Misty Lee, have been subjected to a steady dose of me. I recorded four episodes of my silly anecdotes and they've been posted one per week this month. The last one is there […]
Back in this here post, I said complimentary things about Raised Eyebrows, a book by a gent named Steve Stoliar. Steve worked for several years for Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, more commonly known as Julius H. Marx, even more commonly known as Groucho. He was a witness to the controversial craziness that was Erin Fleming, […]
Here's one of my favorite comedians, Pete Barbutti, on The Tonight Show. This, people, is how you tell a joke… […]
WonderCon is less than three weeks away. For those of you who find the Comic-Con in San Diego too overwhelming, this one may be just right. And for those of you who can't wait for Comic-Con, WonderCon can be a nice way to tide you over 'til then. Run by the same expert crew, it's […]
I recently did a long overdue revamp on the website of my amigo/partner Sergio Aragonés. It has an all-new look and is now running on software that will make it simple for us to keep our promise of updating it on a regular basis. When you get a moment, go take a look at read […]
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Just read two reviews of the Oscars by different friends of mine. Ken Levine is always funny when he doesn't like something. Leonard Maltin is always wise even when I don't agree with him. (Leonard, you and I need to have a talk about this aberrant notion you picked up somewhere that Joan Rivers is […]