Note to Self…
Next time I'm at Costco, I have to remember to pick up a crate of canned soup, a 24-roll package of paper towels, a ten-year supply of soy sauce, fifty jars of pickle relish…and a dozen of these. […]
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Peter Dizekes offers up a list of 34 scandals in and around the Bush Administration. This is a Salon article so if you're not a subscriber, you may need to watch a commercial. […]
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Roger Lowenstein offers up a long but fairly compelling argument that there is no Social Security crisis. There's apparently a long history of forecasting that the fund will be bankrupt by ever-advancing dates. […]
TiVo To Go…One Way or the Other
If you want to know why the TiVo company is in trouble, read this and this and if you're really interested, this. They all add up to a pretty simple fact: TiVo is being outflanked right and left in the field it pioneered. They simply have been unable to upgrade their product fast enough, and […]
Remembering Will
Here's a pretty good newspaper article about Will Eisner. It's written by my longtime buddy, Gary Brown…a reporter who really knows the comic book business. And I'm not just saying that because he often quotes me. I'm saying it because he always quotes me. Also: Another old pal, Ken Gale, is devoting the next broadcast […]
The Cat Comes Back
The second volume of Garfield and Friends (that show I wrote years ago) was released on DVD last month. I was told some time back that the third volume would follow in May of 2005, that the fourth will follow in October, and that the fifth and final would be in March of 2006. (That […]
Gene Baylos, R.I.P.
Another longtime comedy veteran has left us. Here's the New York Times obit for Gene Baylos and as you'll see, he had a long career in comedy, though he never quite managed to become a household name. (The one appearance of his that readers of this weblog will probably remember was on The Dick Van […]
Investigation?
As you may recall, on the New Year's Eve edition of The Tonight Show, broadcast live to the East Coast, singer Vince Neil uttered the "f" word. According to this article which ran a week or so ago, the F.C.C. will launch an investigation into the matter. Let us leave aside for the moment the […]
All Things Come…
Phone guy finally showed and managed to fix the problem in about three minutes. He's from San Jose, he says. The local company is so overwhelmed with trouble complaints that they've brought hundreds (he may have said "thousands") of technicians from other cities. He started work at 7 AM this morning and is expected to […]
Still Waiting…
No sign of the telephone repairman. You know…the one who was supposed to be here between 1 PM and 5 PM? […]
Venting…
One of my phone lines is out. It's been out for more than a week but that's okay. I have a couple of lines, and I'm sure that after the big rains that hit Los Angeles, there are folks who need a repairman more than I do. So I didn't flinch when, eight days ago, […]
It's Still the Trousers
After languishing way too long on a shelf over at Warner Home Video, Eric Idle's long-awaited sequel to The Rutles will finally have a DVD release on or around March 1. Longtime readers of this site will recall that I saw it at a screening in May of 2001 (as noted near the bottom of […]
One More Singular Sensation
In Broadway's rush to revive everything that ran longer than Carrie, it was inevitable that the return of A Chorus Line should be announced…and it has been. A new production is planned for next year…a re-creation of the original, complete with much the same choreography. The original version ran fifteen years, making it the longest-running […]
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Frank Rich rips Armstrong Williams into teensy-weensy bits over the latter's ethical transgressions as a news commentator. […]
Make Room, Make Room!
If you are desperate for a hotel room for the Comic-Con in San Diego…or if you just are going somewhere and crave the best possible deal…here's a tip. Travelaxe is a free service that has sure helped me find cheap lodgings. It's a piece of software that you download to your computer. You tell it […]