Back in this post, I wrote about folks on the Internet who tell you what is good for you to eat and what is bad. There's been a recent explosion of them, inspired (I suspect) by the fact that a gent named Bobby Parrish, who I wrote about then, and a few others seem to […]
Obit for Peter David by Gavin Edwards in The New York Times. There will be a gathering to remember Peter at Comic-Con International in San Diego this year. […]
When I was a kid, we had no home video: No Betamax, no VHS, no Laserdiscs, no DVD, no Blu ray, etc. The only way most of us could watch a movie in our homes was to buy 8mm movies like those offered by a company called Castle Films. They weren't cheap if you were […]
Everyone who wants to cut funding for anyone's health care claims they're only cutting waste and fraud…but the statistics they're citing don't seem to support that insistence. Glenn Kessler looks at the numbers that House Speaker Mike Johnson is citing and finds them lacking in this thing called accuracy. Speaking of health care: To the […]
Sonny and Cher starred in a rather popular show — The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour — on CBS from 1971 to 1974. Then they got divorced and each one starred in their own series. The Sonny Comedy Revue went on the air for ABC on September 22 of '74 and didn't do too well. […]
Is there a single thing Marco Rubio has said lately that is not the direct opposite of something Marco Rubio said a few years ago? Glenn Kessler tackles some of Rubio's latest twistings of realities. I keep reading posts online that say that Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" contains provisions that would allow him to cancel […]
"Seth" — who I assume has a last name but he didn't tell me what it is — wrote to ask… I also watched the Pee-wee documentary this weekend, and reading your thoughts got me thinking about two questions for you: 1) The recollections on the doc about how Saturday mornings were the "wild west" […]
On the World Wide Web, you can find — and often, not avoid — horrible news and stories about people who don't seem to give a damn about anyone or anything but their own immediate needs or desires. I have some cleansing moments watching these videos (and there are a lot of them) of people […]
I am at a loss to explain why I am so interested in the fate of Thrifty Ice Cream. I gave up eating ice cream and things like that in 2007 but I'm still following this story which, briefly, goes like this: Once upon a time, there was this big chain of Thrifty Drug Stores. […]
Comic-Con International 2025 convenes in 58 days and I'll be doing my usual sixteen-or-so panels…but that's not what I want to talk about at the moment. Let's talk about the San Diego Convention Center. It opened in November of 1989 and has since undergone a vast amount of renovation and expansion…but not enough. As this […]
Folks are sending me links to other videos with Stan Ross in them. Brent Seguine pointed to this sketch that The Three Stooges did on The Ed Sullivan Show for 2/10/1963. Ross turns up at the very end as the punch line… And several people made reference to this music video by David Lee Roth. […]
Dick Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925. Despite what many click-baiting sites are claiming, he is not 100 years old today. He is 99 years, 5 months and 13 days old. His hundredth birthday is 201 days from today. This has been a Dick Van Dyke Fact Check. Thank you. […]
Donald Trump and those doing his bidding insist that his "Big, Beautiful Bill" will not cut "anything meaningful," just "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicaid and nothing about Medicare or Social Security. Politifact and CBS News both say this is not true. Meanwhile, Trump's doing a lot of things that if they'd been done by […]
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I watched both parts of the Paul Reubens documentary last night. My first reaction was that I really didn't need to hear that much about his sexuality. But then I don't think I need to hear much about the sexuality of any consenting adult. Based on some of the exchanges that were included between Paul […]
With sadness but no great shock, we're hearing that Peter David died last night. The sadness is because he was a helluva nice, funny guy. The lack of shock is because Peter has been in and out of hospitals with one serious ailment after another for years now. I actually first-drafted an obit a long […]