Hey, do you remember that posting of mine that a fellow named Bill Stosine sent to various Letters to the Editor pages over his signature? Well, I just noticed it also got into the Chicago Sun-Times about two weeks ago. I've written TV shows that didn't get this wide an audience. […]
That's what's on the license plate from my 1957 Thunderbird…which, by the way, I'm still thinking of selling. (That is, I'm thinking of selling the car. Whether or not you'll want the plate too may depend on whether your name is Mark.) In any case, that's not a photo of the actual plate. It's a […]
As mentioned before here, a DVD collection of Marx Brothers movies will be available in May. Based on the announced rundown of its contents, we like this package a lot…even if it does include A Night in Casablanca. We're going to advance-order it by clicking on this Amazon link and you might like to do […]
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Stuttering John (of Howard Stern fame) as Leno's new announcer? Oh, great. It's not enough to do remote segments where the point is to laugh at how awkward and non-professional some people are on camera. Now we're going to have one of them in the studio every night. Once upon a time, if you wanted […]
Yesterday, three separate people said roughly the same thing to me: "I don't know why, but I have the feeling the Democratic nominee is going to be Edwards." […]
Happy to hear that we're about to see a reissue of my pal Roger Stern's 1993 novel, The Death and Life of Superman. Well actually, I'm happy for you since I still have my original hardcover copy. The new one's a trade paperback that will be out in March, with new introductions by Roger, Mike […]
Here's a piece by the Spinsanity crew that strikes me as a fair overview of the "Bush in the National Guard" flap. My interest in this one is low but it does fascinate me that so many folks on both sides are throwing out incomplete, arguable hunks of "evidence" and then saying, "This proves we're […]
Here's a good profile of a very fine actor named David Paymer. I worked with David on a series a few years ago and thought he was an absolute joy. […]
One of the great unsung comic books of the past is Little Archie, as written and drawn by Bob Bolling. At arm's length, it seems like a dumb idea for a comic. To the extent the teenage Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Reggie and the rest of the gang were entertaining, it was because they dealt […]
Two things distress me about these rumors that John Kerry had an affair with an intern, and neither makes me more or less likely to vote for him. One is that it's only February. Kerry doesn't even have the nomination and the attacks have already reached this level. I hate to think what we're going […]
Some ambitious folks are attempting to catalog every TV and film appearance of every DC comic book character with what they call The DC Live Action List, even though it includes cartoon voices. Whatever, it's a valuable resource. […]
Here are Eric Alterman and Michael Tomasky discussing how reporters ought to actually be doing some reporting instead of taking dictation from those in power. […]
One of the things Bill Clinton did that I didn't like was his embrace of the "V-Chip." Nice to see that now that they're required on all TV sets, almost no one's using them. […]
Some time ago, I recommended you waste a few hours of your too, too-short life on an online game. Over at the Garfield website, you can play Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt. And then, after you agonize your way through that puzzle, you can throw good time after bad and play Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt II. […]