Here at news from me, we wander from topic to topic. We started talking about the new Dr. Seuss postage stamp and now I'm printing the following from my pal, Rick Scheckman… Another non-President who did not wait ten years to be on a postage stamp was Dag Hammarskjold. Dag was at the time of […]
A couple of folks have written to remind me that the U.S. Postal Service made an exception to their rule that a non-president had to be dead ten years to be on a stamp. The exception they all mention was Walter Elias Disney, who passed away in 1966 and had his mug on a 6-cent […]
In the matter of Terry Schiavo, the lady in Florida who may or may not be in a "persistent vegetative state" depending on who you believe, I earlier linked to a page that made the case for keeping her alive. This other website doesn't attempt to take the opposite view, but it was compiled by […]
I haven't seen the new Looney Tunes DVD yet but a reader named "Booksteve" informs me that the documentary narrated by Stan Freberg and included on the DVD has an error in it. There's a photo of voice actress Bea Benaderet, he says, that is identified as June Foray. Booksteve writes, "Stan should be incensed!" […]
A lot of folks on message boards seem to be confused or concerned about where all the big fires in Southern California are located. This map may be of help. […]
Over at the L.A. Times site, Charles Solomon has an article and an online video all about the way the relationship between humans and wildlife gets portrayed in animation. Just click on this link. […]
There already was a U.S. postage stamp with Snoopy on it, and there have been a lot of different ones in other countries. What I meant was that there could be a stamp that more or less celebrated the life of Charles Schulz without actually depicting him. There could be a whole series of Peanuts […]
Michael Reaves has two new projects out. He was an editor of Shadows Over Baker Street, an anthology of original stories by various authors, including Neil Gaiman. This is the book that asks the musical question: What would happen if Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos crossed paths? Michael also wrote the screenplay for the […]
I mistyped when I wrote, "Rumor has it that we will see a Charles Schulz stamp before long." Yes, I know you can't be on a stamp until you've been dead for ten years — U.S. presidents, excepted. What I should have written was, "Rumor has it that we will see a Charles Schulz stamp […]
One day while we were doing Garfield and Friends, I wrote an episode that involved a game show and required an authentic-sounding game show announcer voice. Several actors in our cast could have supplied it but for some reason, I was seized by the idea of getting the genuine article. Our producer, Lee Mendelson, was […]
One of my favorite political commentary websites is Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo. I like Liberals who are respected by most Conservatives and Conservatives who are respected by most Liberals, and Marshall is in the former category. The other day, he mentioned that he was thinking of covering the New Hampshire primary not for […]
If you get a letter from me in the next year and you aren't the Gas Company, it will probably have one of these on it — the stamp that was unveiled today to honor the late Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. I think it's terrific that he is being so honored, and also that the […]
Not only have I been meaning to mention Atrios but I wanted to give you all this link to Ron Paul's weekly essays. Paul is a Libertarian Congressguy from Texas but unlike some prominent Libertarians, he seems to have a decent sense of reality. I don't always agree with him but then I don't always […]
Atrios is one of the most-read political bloggers who skews Left. And if you think I post often, you should see this guy. Anyway, I've been meaning to mention him here but he just put up an amazing transcript from C-SPAN transcribed by someone else. Here's the link to it. It's a call from a […]
A new production of Larry Gelbart's play, Sly Fox, is set to open next April in New York. Richard Dreyfuss stars in a role originated by George C. Scott, but never mind that. The most interesting bit of casting involves a smaller role. "Professor" Irwin Corey is in the company, and some theater buffs think […]