I will not be running in the Los Angeles Marathon this Sunday. There are many reasons for this but a good one is that on the marathon website, it says that Tylenol 8 Hour is — and I quote — "The Official Pain Reliever of the Los Angeles Marathon." I don't participate in anything that […]
Late Saturday night (aka early Sunday morning), NBC is rerunning the full, 90-minute version of the third-ever episode of Saturday Night Live. Actually, as you'll note from the above ticket, it was still called NBC's Saturday Night at the time. I believe this was the last episode before they changed the name. This is the […]
One other thing I should have mentioned about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. If you want to research them on the Internet, it may help to remember that though they were two of the most important creators in comic book history, an amazing number of comic book fans and scholars cannot spell their names. Sometimes, […]
Spent all afternoon at the dentist having old, cracking fillings drilled out and replaced with new ones. This is about as much fun as…well, as spending all afternoon at the dentist having old, cracking fillings drilled out and replaced with new ones. Came home to find the entire neighborhood was without electricity. I called up […]
As a few of you may know, the families of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have taken legal action to reclaim the copyright to Superman and certain allied characters. I think this is the most important news story to hit the comic book industry in decades but most of the sites that report on the […]
Starting March 18, TV Land will be airing two hours of SCTV every Friday night. A year or so ago, this would have come as glorious news…and it's still not bad news, I suppose. But now that many of those shows are readily available on DVD, it's like, "Oh, that's nice." If it is bad […]
Frank Rich on Hunter S. Thompson and how the press could use someone like him these days. […]
I haven't mentioned GSN's Black-and-White Overnight bloc lately. They've been running old episodes of What's My Line? for the eight-jillionth time and Beat the Clock and The Name's the Same for what I believe are the first reruns ever. I find Beat the Clock to be largely unwatchable. I thought the show was stupid when […]
Jay Leno may be called as a witness in the Michael Jackson Circus Trial. His lawyers are trying to make sure the gag order affecting those involved in the trial doesn't impact his ability to mine the subject for monologue jokes. Here's the story. […]
Jeffrey Toobin writes in The New Yorker (which means the link goes away in a few days) about Republican options for using the "nuclear option" to ram legislation through the Senate. […]
I love how I can just ask a question on this weblog and, nine times outta ten, someone will e-mail me the answer within the hour. The fine cartoonist, Nate Butler — who I haven't seen since we had lunch at the WonderCon — writes to note that in one edition of the National Cartoonists […]
My ol' pal Don Markstein notes my birthday over on his Toonopedia site (thanks, Don) and adds in a page about DNAgents, the comic I co-created with Will Meugniot. And Don has a question. Once upon a time, there was a cartoonist named Al Smith. He drew the Mutt and Jeff newspaper strip for a […]
Those of you who live in Southern California and have been concerned about further rainfall can breathe easier. I've just arranged to have a new roof put on my leaky garage. Once I get it on there, which will be some time next week, there will be very little chance of more precipitation…not unless I […]
Here's a video of two excerpts from the memorial service for Graham Chapman, the deceased member of Monty Python. [CAUTION: Contains language.] […]
And I should have mentioned that that neat page on the Oswald the Rabbit cartoons is the work of David Gerstein and Pietro Shakarian. Individually and collectively, David and Pietro have been responsible for digging up much valuable info on classic animation and have selflessly put it up on the web for all. The Classic […]