ASIFA is the international animated film society and its various branches do great things to honor and preserve good animation and even some of the less-good variety. The Hollywood wing is presently establishing an archive that deserves your attention if not your support. Stephen Worth is the main mover-and-shaker behind this most worthwhile endeavor and […]
For some reason, the C-Span website won't let me link directly to video files but there are two over there that are worth a look-see. If you fish around there, you might find them. One is George W. Bush's 15 minute live chat this morning with a number of our soldiers in Iraq. If Bush […]
So here's the premise: Any time the news is bad for George W. Bush, federal officials up the Terror Alert Level and say they have evidence of "credible threats." This is intended to distract us and to perhaps scare a certain kind of person into being more loyal to the White House occupant. Do you […]
I promised a week or two ago to post more about "official" comic book fan clubs but then I got distracted by a bevy of great comic actors dying on us. There will be several more posts beyond this one about the Merry Marvel Marching Society, which Marvel Comics threw at us around the close […]
We all hate "spyware" on our computers, spyware being those annoying files you probably accumulate as you surf the web and download porn your e-mail and such. I assume we all use at least one program periodically to scan our computer for spyware and eliminate it. Well, there's SPYWARE!!! and then there's spyware. A "key-logger" […]
Yesterday, I linked to this video of a French newscast on the "Smurfs get bombed" commercial. Today brings this message from Charles-Emmanuel Ouellette… About the Smurf newscast and bombing, well, I'm French Canadian and happen to understand French (and speak and write English a bit awkwardly, sorry). I thought that you may be interested in […]
I usually don't like it when you go to a website and they have an "intro" page with music and Flash animation. Makes me immediately go diving for wherever you click to "skip intro." For some reason, however, I enjoyed the noisy intro page on the website of In-n-Out Burger. If you live where there […]
Like you, I have no clue as to what kind of indictments, if any, may emerge from the Valerie Plame/CIA investigation. But it sure looks like someone "in the know" is going around and leaking to pundits and reporters — or to people who will pass it on to pundits and reporters — that Someone […]
From Jay Leno's monologue tonight… As you know, there is terrible flooding in New Hampshire and it's been declared a disaster area. To give you an idea how white New Hampshire is…FEMA got there in a minute and a half. […]
Yesterday, the right-wing news service, Newsmax, issued a "news story." I can't provide a direct link to it but if you hurry, you might still see it in the Google cache. Here's just the first part… Bono, U2 in Fund-Raiser for Senator Rick Santorum On Sunday, October 16, a truly unique political event will take […]
The Bush administration is hiring. […]
As we surmised, the video of the Village of the Smurfs being bombed is actually a little more fully-animated than the clip to which I linked earlier. Here's a link to another newscast that includes the actual footage. [Thanks to Joel Wright for sending me there.] And I have received three e-mails from people who […]
Radio Guy Paul Harris writes to answer a question that I posed here the other day: Does George Carlin still have Dennis Blair opening for him when he performs in Vegas? According to Paul (who by the way, is heard weekday afternoons on KMOX in St. Louis)… Just back from a long weekend in Vegas […]
Michael Kinsley makes some good points about Supreme Court nominations and how ridiculous it is for a nominee to profess not to have any opinions on the big issues. […]
Here's something some of you may not know. Louis Nye (seen at above right) was almost the voice of Fred the Lion in the Super Chicken cartoons with Mr. Knotts in the title role. In 1960, with Rocky and His Friends successful on afternoon TV, producer Jay Ward tried to sell a new series which […]