I have a little problem I'd like to share with you, not that I expect anyone to be able to solve it… Recently, I've received an amazing number of e-mails from strangers who are trying to contact someone…usually an individual in the animation business or the field of comics who they think I may know. […]
At above left is the cover to the historic Flash Comics #1 which featured the first Flash story, written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Harry Lampert. Today, many text-only obits are appearing about Harry (like this one and this one). In a day or two, they'll start appearing with pictures. Let's see how many […]
Michael Kinsley writes about judicial activism. [Washington Post registration may be necessary.] I don't agree with every word of articles to which I link, and sometimes don't agree at all. But this one I think is right on the money: Decrying "judicial activism" is usually just a way of saying you think a judge should […]
That's right: Another damn obit. The very funny comedian and voice actor Dayton Allen died last Thursday at age 85. Born Dayton Allen Bolke, he was a native of New York and he got into show business, more or less following the path of his boyhood friend, Art Carney. Both broke into radio in their […]
Just amended the Harry Lampert obit. I wrote that he died on his 88th birthday because the source I consulted said he was born November 13, 1916. Mike Catron, who diligently preserves convention panels and interviews for posterity on videotape, informs me Harry said at one he was born November 3, 1916. I'm assuming Harry […]
Harry Lampert, the artistic co-creator of The Flash, died this morning at age 88. The cause was listed as a cerebral hemorrhage, but he had been in failing health for the past few months, battling cancer and undergoing treatments at a hospital near his home in Florida. A native of New York, Harry showed early […]
E-mails are reminding me of another duo that went by the name of Tom and Jerry…the singing pair who later reverted to their real names of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They were "Tom and Jerry" for a couple years…and apparently, they even wrote most of their songs together then, whereas the later Simon & […]
It's hard to get on a political website this week without confronting the question of whether our recent presidential election was fixed. This is a shame because it largely overwhelms what is probably a more valid, fixable issue, which is whether our recent presidential election was run with all possible competence. It may well be […]
You all know Tom and Jerry, the cat and mouse from M.G.M. cartoons. If you are a true animation buff, you also know Tom and Jerry, the tall-and-short pair that appeared in Van Beuren cartoons before them. This new website tells you all about the human duo, whose cartoons I remember well from my early […]
The Washington Post has set up a searchable web page with info and, where available, photos of all the soldiers who've died in the Iraq conflict. A sad reminder of just some of what this is costing us. […]
As we all know, NBC runs an old episode of Saturday Night Live very early Sunday morning each week…and they run the full 90-minute versions of them, not the 60-minute cutdowns that are more often available. Lately, they've been jumping around the Eddie Murphy years, running some shows that haven't been seen — at least […]
I didn't follow the Scott Peterson case. I didn't see what there was about it that warranted more attention than your average homicide. The O.J. Simpson matter involved a movie and sports star, some other peripheral celebrities, racial tensions, a couple of well-publicized public spectacles, colorful lawyers, some pretty serious charges of incompetence and/or treachery […]
Drop by The Oh-Fishul Pogo Possum Website today for a special Veteran's Day Pogo strip from the past. And while you're visiting, there's still time to enjoy The Pogo Election Special, a whole buncha strips that Pogomaster Walt Kelly writ 'n' drew in election years past. It's amazing how many of the things he said […]
Those of you who own TiVos need to read this. […]
Malcolm Gladwell explains the hows and whys of prescription drug costs in America. Read this one now. The link may expire in a few days. […]