Where are these indictments I keep hearing about? Okay, there's Tom DeLay. Good start but it's only one and knowing him, he'll probably slip out of that charge…make some kind of plea bargain that admits no wrongdoing in exchange for which he'll do five minutes of community service — the first and last of his […]
As readers of Marvel Comics know well, Captain America is alive today only due to a freakish miracle. During World War II, he was involved in an accident involving an airplane. He plunged into icy waters where his body was frozen, only to be thawed out many decades later. Or at least, that's the way […]
Michigan J. Frog, as we all know, has been a drinking glass, a shoe shine kit and even some sort of ceramic kitchen figure I don't understand. He's also been a candle, a plush toy, a few thousand t-shirts, a pillow, a pair of scissors, a tape dispenser, a salt and pepper shaker and many […]
I first became familiar with The Ramones from a wonderful little low-budget 1979 film called Rock 'n' Roll High School. I kinda liked their music and to date, I have bought a grand total of zero Ramones albums. This is because a one-time lady friend left hers behind when she exited my life. I almost […]
Craig Robin is the one who told me about this link, which will take you to a site where you can download an Eddie Cantor video from around 1923 and, yes, it's a talkie. It's him doing part of his stage act…somewhat awkwardly because he didn't have a live audience there to laugh at the […]
Eddie Cantor was…well, I have a feeling that most of the people who visit this site know who Eddie Cantor was but for the few of you who don't: Eddie Cantor was a great entertainer around the middle of the previous century, mostly on stage but also on radio and in films. In today's New […]
Ask a question, get an answer. As several folks (first among them, Jeff Leyser) are all informing me now, the two guys with the clever act sampled in the item before last bill themselves as "Men in Coats." Here's a link to their website which tells me very little about them other than that they're […]
Throughout the Valerie Plame/CIA/Robert Novak mess, one has occasionally seen the word "boondoggle" creep into the proceedings. Reading an online article earlier, I realized that I thought I knew what the word meant but I wasn't 100% certain. Turns out it's not in my pop-up Websters Dictionary but this site has a definition. […]
And here's another video link to another act that uses a not dissimilar gimmick in a different way. This one's six minutes and the best stuff is in the last part. (And just out of curiosity: Does anyone know who these guys are?) […]
Here's a neat little magic trick (video link) from Japanese TV. It's one of those where it's pretty obvious how it's done but it works anyway. […]
The Boardwalk Hotel in Las Vegas will close on January 9, 2006 with a demolition date to be announced shortly. Once it's down, they'll start building Project City Center, a $5 billion hotel/condo complex on the land. The Boardwalk is that garish blight covered with circus imagery situated on The Strip between New York, New […]
Yesterday on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the host read an item about Bill O'Reilly's possible retirement. You don't often see a newsguy motivated to get up and start singing and dancing in glee but you do in this video link. […]
In March of this year, I announced here that Rhino Handmade, which specializes in limited-edition collectors' CDs, was prepping My Son, the Box, an assembly of almost everything Allan Sherman ever did. We're big fans of Mr. Sherman here so this was welcome news to us…and of course, by "us," I mean me. It was […]
Variety selects The Top 100 Icons of the last hundred years. And there are some other interesting articles over on their anniversary website. […]
Have I mentioned here that my pal Lee Goldberg (a prolific writer of TV and books) has a weblog? That it's full of info on the writing business? That you oughta visit it every day or so? I don't think I have so I will now. Lee has some nice memories of the late Charles […]