Deck the TiVo!
Here's an article on some of what we'll be seeing in the way of TV Christmas specials the next month. And there are a few paragraphs about A Charlie Brown Christmas. […]
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Go Read
Go read Leonard Maltin on the business of putting out (and putting together) DVDs. […]
Recommended Reading
Seymour Hersh on what's happening with Iraq and what's going to happen. I think there's something in there to worry everyone. […]
Claypool Crisis
In the eighties and early nineties, the comic book business went through major upheavals with new companies and new distributors coming and going like lawyers for Saddam Hussein. Some very large operations went from zero to sixty and back again so rapidly that once, when I attended a distributor's national sales meeting, three publishers who'd […]
Useful (but tardy) Information
Here, too late to be of any use to you on Thanksgiving, are lessons in how to carve a turkey. […]
Recommended Blogging
I should have mentioned it some time ago but my pal Steve Thompson has set up a weblog of goodies from his "pop culture" library. Everything there is of interest but he just put up this item, which is an ad for the short-lived Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show from 1976. This was a folksy […]
Recommended Reading
Here's a link to this weekend's Frank Rich column. You may be shocked to see that it's about how the Bush-Cheney defense of the Iraq war is collapsing. Who'd have imagined Frank Rich would write of such a thing? […]
Book Reports
I was disappointed in Ed McMahon's new book on Johnny Carson. I hadn't expected anything but a love letter to his former employer but I had expected more behind-the-scenes and off-camera info than we get in Here's Johnny! An awful lot of it is "Ed" (or whoever actually wrote it) recounting funny things Johnny said […]
Friday Cat Blogging
Last Friday, I posted a photo of a cat that dines nightly on my back step. Here's a better angle on the feline in question. The caption for this picture is, "Put down the camera and fill the bowl." I suspect this caption would work on most photos of most cats who aren't asleep at […]
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Michael Kinsley on Dick Cheney's arguments for the war in Iraq and against his critics. […]
Pat Morita, R.I.P.
Up until yesterday, Pat Morita was a survivor. He'd survived spinal tuberculosis. He'd survived an internment camp. He'd even survived Mr. T and Tina. Mr. T and Tina was a situation comedy that appeared and disappeared in 1976 faster than you could say, "Kamikaze." It was one of those shows — there are a few […]
ME at a Con
I've been added to the guest list for the 2006 WonderCon, which is being held in San Francisco from February 10 through 12. Also on the roster are Erik Larsen, Gahan Wilson, Ramona Fradon, Marie Severin, Sergio Aragonés, Frank Cho, Mike Allred, Mike Mignola and some other fine folks, and there'll be more names announced […]
Set Your TiVo!
This weekend's vintage Saturday Night Live rerun (the one they run in the wee small hours of the A.M.) is from November 22, 1986. Robin Williams is the host, Paul Simon is the musical guest and there are some pretty good sketches with Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, […]
Nap Time?
Okay, so you just finished that big Thanksgiving dinner and the tryptophan in the turkey is making you sleepy, right? Well, these folks say that's a myth. […]
Another Raccoon Pic
Here's another photo from the other night. The raccoons are, by the way, doing a good job of destroying that fence, knocking slats out of it. I'll have to do something about this one of these days. I have no idea where these fellows live most of the time. For a while, I thought they […]