Correction
Mark miscalculated. The episode of To Tell the Truth with Baby LeRoy doesn't air on GSN until Wednesday morning. Sorry. […]
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Game Show Moments
The episode of What's My Line? which ran this morning (just now) on GSN had a bit of history to it. It was from 5/26/57 and had Errol Flynn, of all people, on the panel. A few hours before the live broadcast, host John Daly learned that the Mystery Guest would be Mike Wallace, who […]
Cent-imental Journey
I learned to read from comic books, mostly from Dell Comics published between around 1957 and 1960. I read most of them and I had a subscription — a birthday gift from some relative — to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. The rest, I bought off the newsstand…or my father would say, "Pick out a […]
A Nice Little Piece on Groucho
Here's a nice little piece on Groucho for those of you in the mood to read a nice little piece on Groucho. Thank you, Dan Gheno, for calling my attention to the nice little piece of Groucho. […]
Today's Political Rant
No one will ever give me credit for it but I think, back in the pre-Internet days of electronic bulletin boards, I was the first person to ever make an important point in online discussions. My friends and I used to refer to Mark's Rule, which is that you're not allowed to compare anyone to […]
Memo Minder
A couple of readers of this site have sent me links to sites that suggest the Downing Street Memos are forgeries or fakes. The "evidence" of this appears to be from reports in news items like this one that the copies circulating are not originals… The eight memos all labeled "secret" or "confidential" were first […]
Strip Sleuthing
Dan Tobias does some sharp detective work on the photo posted in the previous item. One of the signs makes reference to "Wednesday, November 27." In the sixties, Wednesday only fell on that date in 1963 and 1968, Dan notes. I'm pretty sure the Pzazz show wasn't open in '63 but was in '68, so […]
Vegas Visions
I love old pictures of Las Vegas, especially ones in which you can read the marquees on the casinos. They give you some idea of how wonderful that place must have been, once upon a time. This photo, which I'm guessing is from some time in the mid-to-late sixties, has a lot of information if […]
Follow-Up
The other day, I linked to a funny Daily Show spot about the invoking of Hitler in political discussions. Bill Sherman makes a salient point about that spot. […]
Also From the E-Mailbag…
From Mike Kozlowski comes this message about an earlier post here… I'm a daily reader of your site, and I've been following your Deep Throat posts with some interest. Although I'm a registered Republican, I agree with you for the most part — Mr. Felt did the right thing. He should be regarded, to a […]
From the E-Mailbag…
A reader of this site named Greg Cox just sent me the following… If Hagel wants to see us succeed in Iraq, he'll support the commander in chief, rather than say things like, "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality…" How could anyone take him seriously? Well, […]
Recommended Reading
Here's a gloomy assessment of the situation in Iraq…from a Republican senator. […]
Super Update
Tommy Donovan, who's obviously smarter than I am, figured out a way to do a direct link to the Mo Rocca report from Metropolis. Here it is. […]
Bruce Hamilton, R.I.P.
Comic book publisher and collector Bruce Hamilton passed away early this morning following a prolonged illness. I'm afraid I don't have a lot more in the way of details but just losing Bruce comes as very sad news. Bruce was a great patron and promoter of classic comic artists, most notably Carl Barks, and was […]
Super Report
The other night, Jay Leno sent Tonight Show correspondent Mo Rocca to Metropolis, Illinois for the 2005 Superman celebration. Posted now on the show's site is the segment, which includes interviews with Noel Neill, John Schneider and Superman museum curator Jim Hambrick. Unfortunately, the way the NBC website is configured, there seems to be no […]