As we noted the other day, the current storyline of the Gasoline Alley newspaper strip involves the death of a long-time character, probably Uncle Walt Wallet but perhaps his wife Phyllis and perhaps both of them. Writer-artist Jim Scancarelli has artfully taken us through the mourning without telling us just who is being mourned. This […]
Boy, I wish I had more to report about this fine comic convention I'm attending this weekend. I'm having a very good time but not in a way that yields gobs of anecdotes I can post here. Saw Russ Heath and Bob Burden today and spent some time talking to Tom Yeates, who is doing […]
The Moscone Center in San Francisco is filled with comic book fans, comic book creators and comic books. There are also a few actors and models and one hapless lady who has been assigned by the convention center folks to go up and down the aisles with a pushcart of snacks to sell. So far, […]
For some reason — probably to confuse terrorists — if you book Alaska Airlines flight 1856 from Los Angeles to San Francisco, you are automatically booked instead on American Airlines flight 1928 from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Alaska Airlines has no actual flight 1856. It's all a sham to get you on American. Anyway, […]
The greatest scientific breakthrough of our time is not fiber optics or cloning and it has nothing to do with stem cells. It's the Reach Access Daily Flosser. I bought one the other night and can't believe it's taken this long for someone to come up with a product that makes it easy…almost fun to […]
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Here's Fred Kaplan on what's going on in Fallujah. And here's Timothy Noah on a possible future for Iraq that would probably cause even more unrest than bringing Saddam back. […]
Here for your purchasing pleasure is an Amazon link to pre-order the forthcoming DVD set of Garfield and Friends, a cartoon show I wrote back in my younger days. (I never quite understood that phrase, "younger days." What you did yesterday was done on a "younger day"…but let's not spoil a shameless plug with logic.) […]
Another great eBay bargain. […]
Deep sympathies to the co-creator of Green Lantern, Mart Nodell, on the death of his charming spouse, Carrie. The Nodells met in October of 1941 and were married less than two months later. (Carrie always said, "I was in the wedding shop, picking out my dress when I heard Pearl Harbor had been attacked.") They […]
[NOTE: If you haven't read the previous message, read it before you read this one.] Okay, I'm back. A lady eventually comes on the line and informs me that my account is in arrears, I must pay within 48 hours, etc. I tell her I signed up for automatic payment. She says there is no […]
So a little while ago, I get this real insulting phone call from a human being (I'm being charitable) who works for SBC, which is my phone provider. He says my phone bill is overdue and if I don't make payment in 48 hours, my phones will be shut off and I will have to […]
According to this, it's just going to be Ted Koppel showing photos of men and women killed in recent combat and giving their names. Immediately after, Jimmy Kimmel welcomes actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, rap artist/TV host Xzibit "Pimp My Ride" and musical guests Flaming Lips. Good programming flow. […]
As readers of this site know, my current favorite "new" standup comedian is Lewis Black. Comedy Central has two old half-hour shows in which he performs monologue material and they're running them this Friday night. If I understand the schedule correctly, they're running one at 8:30 PM. Then they run the other at 10:00, followed […]
The recent continuity in Doonesbury regarding B.D.'s war injury eclipsed a dramatic plot twist in another newspaper strip. Gasoline Alley has been around since 1918 when Frank King created it. King and a couple of assistants did it until 1956 when it was taken over by Dick Moores, who many feel made it into an […]