I really like going to Costco. Rumor has it they will soon erect one about a mile from me, which will be great. But until they do, I have no hesitation about visiting any of three that are 6-8 miles away. I find them friendly and clean and usually well-stocked, and I love all the […]
Tom Spurgeon reports on the Eisner Awards, which were handed out last Friday night at the Comic-Con International. I was going to say his commentary was more entertaining than the awards themselves, but…well, fill in your own joke about watching paint dry or watching flies die. Tom's report is very funny, as you'll see for […]
Here's a pretty good article explaining the basics of the Plame/Rove/Whoever scandal. […]
Hiking back and forth between my hotel and the convention center in San Diego, I had to deal with…well, I'm not sure what you'd call them. They were folks assigned to direct traffic (car and foot) but they weren't police officers by any means. They reminded me of hall monitors back in elementary school: Fellow […]
I'm home. Rode back with my chum Paul Dini and his fiancée, the lovely and mystifying Misty Lee. We stopped at a place in Oceanside that has world class fish-and-chips (info here), then took the short cut back from San Diego. For the last few years, a well-kept secret among California motorists has been the […]
Frank Rich on what's really going on with the Valerie Plame scandal. […]
They have a film program at this convention. This evening, they're showing Hook, Amazon Women on the Moon and This is Spinal Tap, among others. I suddenly find myself curious as to why. Not why they're showing them but why anyone would go to a comic or s-f convention and spend any length of time […]
Friday seemed a little less crowded than Thursday, at least where I was. All my panels went well, though the annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel turned a bit more emotional and dark than I'd intended. I'll write more about it when I'm not working on my laptop at an odd height on a hotel room […]
Three more people informed me that Stan Lee is not delivering mail for a living. I did three panels that all went well, I thought. Arnold Drake, God love him, closed the Golden/Silver Age panel with an original, a cappella song about the convention that brought down the house, as they say. This was after […]
It strikes me, as I read all the news relating to Karl Rove and the Valerie Plame matter, that we know a lot less about this case than we think we do. The Special Prosecutor's office and the Grand Jury have leaked little, if at all. This, of course, hasn't stopped the partisans from making […]
What are the approval/disapproval ratings for the governor of your state? Here's the current rundown. As you can see, Governor Schwarzenegger is doing about as well as the guy who was so unpopular, we had to get rid of him and bring in Arnold. And this was taken before his latest mini-scandal. […]
Sergio and I drove down to San Diego this afternoon, stopping off in Solana Beach at one of my favorite places to eat Japanese cuisine. If you're ever passing through Solana Beach and crave something that's been dipped in tempura batter and fried into a work of art, you want the Samurai Restaurant. Take the […]
Beck has a new video up that's inspired by Al Jaffee's popular MAD Fold-In feature. Go to this page and look for the link to "Girl." [Thanks to Brian Spence for the tip.] […]
Not that this is a big deal but there seems to be some question as to whether Angela Lansbury's knee replacement surgery is a result of her accident last Friday night or if it was something already scheduled. Earlier, I linked to a piece on Playbill Online which said it was. Apparently, they later amended […]
Angela Lansbury is going to have knee replacement surgery. It's a result of that fall she took on stage at the Sondheim gala at the Hollywood Bowl. […]