A hovering grey cloud of a deadline will probably keep me posting very much here the next few days but I wanted to link to two items, both of which I came across on Talking Points Memo, a fine political weblog maintained by Joshua Micah Marshall. One is this item where he's quoting Andrew Sullivan […]
Rogers Cadenhead is a clever writer. We've crossed paths a few times — I don't recall if I interviewed him or he interviewed me but it was one of those — so I was surprised to see him on Countdown With Keith Olbermann yesterday on MSNBC. (And by the way, that there's just about the […]
My spy at GSN says that the new (old) show going on in the late night black-and-white slot is another run of the old To Tell the Truth episodes hosted by Bud Collyer. Not a bad choice. And in case you haven't noticed, the GSN morning schedule now includes the 1990-1991 daytime version of To […]
Given how much I've mentioned it on this weblog, I feel like Paramount Home Video owes me a commission on their new DVD of the 1959 movie of Li'l Abner. (Actually, I'm receiving a small one. You folks out there have ordered enough of 'em through the Amazon link on this site to pay for […]
Charlie Brown really gets no respect. (By the way: The reference in the article to a "1957 Peanuts storyboard" is misleading. A storyboard is something created for animation or film, and '57 was before Peanuts was ever animated. What was involved in this story was obviously the original art for a Peanuts newspaper strip.) […]
I don't always agree with every word of the opinion columns to which I link, and sometimes not even to most of the words. But I can't find a single point of argument to this article by Adam Cohen. It's about "judicial activism." […]
With the rise of the Internet and 24/7 cable news, reporting in this country is getting more immediate. Something happens at 1:00 and it's unthinkable that we all don't hear about it before, say, 1:01. More than ever, this makes me admire the guts and wisdom of Garry Trudeau, who has to address topical events […]
Here's what's currently up at over on the Fox News site… […]
When a performance artist makes a deal to play some auditorium or other venue, there is often a document called a Contract Rider. This is the section of the contract that itemizes special conditions the artist has — how the stage must be arranged, how the publicity must be handled, how the dressing room must […]
For those of you who've been looking for a good website devoted to airline food…here you go. […]
My favorite current stand-up comedian, Lewis Black, was the featured entertainer at the 61st Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner where he drew the kind of spot that is every comic's dream: Following Dick Cheney paying tribute to a dead Pope. Talk about your great warm-ups. He was also required to wear a tux and […]
This is for those of you watching GSN's late night/early A.M. broadcasts of old Goodson-Todman game shows. They've gone through all the episodes of The Name's the Same. Tomorrow morning, they air the first of four episodes of What's Going On?, a short-lived program that Mark Goodson used to cite as the worst show his […]
Front Row, which is a radio show on BBC4 in the UK, recently did a nice half-hour interview with Stephen Sondheim. Go to this page and select the broadcast from last Thursday…and do so before it's displaced by next Thursday's show. You'll need to have Real Player installed to listen in. Speaking of Mr. Sondheim: […]
If you live in Los Angeles or think you know it, try to find your way around on this. […]
This morning on Meet the Press, Tim Russert welcomed congressguys Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Barney Frank (D-MA) for a "blunt and frank" (ha ha) discussion of certain controversies involving Tom DeLay's ethics, or the lack thereof. The quick summary would go something like this: Frank asserted that Republicans keep changing the rules so as to […]