I don't know how many cable systems receive the Boomerang Network but it's happily available via satellite. Once or twice a day, I switch over to at random and usually catch a cartoon from the early years of Hanna-Barbera. I don't think it's just nostalgia for my youth that makes me enjoy those shows. They […]
Every day or so, someone sends me a link to a website on which they display cartooning or other creative work they've done. They are not, they say, getting any or enough work. Could I please look at their samples and tell them if they're wasting their time pursuing a career as a writer or […]
Longtime Archie inker Rudy LaPick died this morning, and I'm afraid I don't have more details about his career or passing than that. I know he worked for Timely Comics in the late forties and then went over to Archie where he may have set the industry record for most pages inked. Jim Amash did […]
Hometown Favorites is a neat online store that can often sell you food items that are not presently available in your area. Of special interest is this list they've posted of items that customers have requested but which are no longer manufactured. It confims for me that I will never again enjoy Pepperidge Farms Nassau […]
My friend Paul Dini sends the following… Saw your piece on your blog re: The Passion of the Christ. I saw it in December at a screening in Austin. I can appreciate the passion Gibson himself undertook in making the film, but the violence in it turned me off. There was so much of it. […]
All the power went out in my neighborhood around 11:30 this morning. This happens every month or three around me, which is one of the reasons I just bought one of these. ($85 for the next few days at Costco Online.) Around Noon, I was wondering what the Department of Water & Power hotline had […]
Reader Nat Hines is the latest of about eight folks to write and ask me if I've seen The Passion of the Christ and if so, what did I think of it? No, I haven't seen it. And since most of the reviews say, as did Roger Ebert, "This is the most violent film I […]
This is just for those of you in and around New York… Saturday nights at the popular cabaret Don't Tell Mama, you can see "Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Live." In this case, Judy Garland is noted Garland impersonator Tommy Femia while Liza (with a Z) is my pal Christine Pedi. I haven't seen them […]
A couple folks asked to write what I think it means that Clear Channel Communications has dropped Howard Stern's radio show from six stations. I think it means Howard will wind up changing stations in six cities. Beyond that, I dunno. It may depend on whether Clear Channel just wanted Stern off those six channels […]
Fred Kaplan examines the charge that John Kerry in the Senate has repeatedly voted to cut defense spending. As you might imagine, Kerry's critics are bending facts a bit. […]
Kevin Boury sent me this e-mail and I thought it was worth quoting and answering. It's in response to my statement that "no one who wants Bush out is going to be dumb enough to not vote for the Democrat." I guess I would be that dumb. Dumb enough to vote for the person who […]
Larry Tougas, a reader of this site, writes to ask… I enjoy watching Survivor, and The Amazing Race, two excellently produced shows. The question I have is regarding the producer's ability to alter the outcome. I was under the impression that since the 1950's game show scandals that producers of game shows must have impartial […]
Neil Gaiman has won, apparently once and for all, his legal dispute with Todd McFarlane. The details of the dispute can be learned here and if you have some Adobe product installed on your computer and want to read a PDF file with the decision, here it is. I like Neil and respect him greatly, […]