Post-Game Show
The credibility of The New York Post takes another downward plunge. Read all about it here. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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The Peter Paul Case
Here's the latest. […]
Recommended Reading
Michael Kinsley on where our president gets his news. […]
Leaks
I cribbed this from Atrios, who is one of the leading left-wing bloggers. It's a paragraph from an honest-to-God news item… Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he "didn't want to see any stories" quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior […]
Comic Strips on Parade
Clark J. Holloway has some great web pages about comic strips. Here's a terrific history of Bringing Up Father (aka "Maggie and Jiggs"). And here's another one devoted to Alley Oop. […]
Great Nixon Quotes
Someone just sent me a transcript of the 1978 Playboy magazine interview with David Frost. This was conducted just after Frost had conducted his historic interviews of Richard M. Nixon. To Playboy, he told the following anecdote which I've always thought was indicative of something quite amazing (I'm not sure what) about our thirty-seventh president… […]
Recommended Reading
I haven't mentioned Spinsanity lately so here's a mention of the most rational political site on the web. The folks there debunk and fact-check articles and speeches by prominent politicos and commentators from all corners of the political spectrum. They just posted a bunch of articles that catch Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly and William Safire […]
Pete Morisi Remembered
Cartoonist Fred Hembeck posts a fond remembrance of the work of the late Pete Morisi. […]
My Favorite Yearbook
In 1974, the National Lampoon folks published one of their crowning achievements: A mythical 1964 high school yearbook owned by student Larry Kroger. The yearbook was written by Doug Kenney and Michael O'Donoghue, and its art direction and photos were as funny as its text. The book went through several printings and was obviously much-treasured […]
Triumph Unmasked
Here's a piece about Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from the Conan O'Brien show. But really, it's about Robert Smigel who works the puppet and does a lot of other funny things. […]
More on Rush
Buzz Dixon is a fine writer and one of my favorite people, even though he and I rarely mark our ballots the same way. He writes the following about the matter of Mr. Limbaugh and his pill-popping… There's actually a 4th position out there, but one that isn't getting a lot of airplay/bloggage. This is […]
Rexall Rush
Most of the commentaries I've seen about Rush Limbaugh and his druggie dilemma struck me as either… Anti-Rush People doing a merry dance, hauling out his old anti-drug quotes and doing Rush-like speeches about his hypocrisy. Anti-Rush People wringing their hands, saying (and perhaps even meaning) that they get no joy from the revelations and […]
Penn Speaks
There's a lot of neat stuff amidst the pop-up ads at IGN Filmforce. I enjoyed reading this just-posted interview with Penn Jillette. And while I was over there, I also enjoyed this older interview with Stephen Colbert of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Both were conducted by Ken Plume, who is a darn good […]
Peanuts Gallery
Full details are now available on The Complete Peanuts, the reprint series we told you about here. If you go to this message board page, you can read all about this forthcoming series and begin computing how much it's going to set you back. This is a terrific project, especially because so many of the […]
Stan and Jack
In the National Post, Jeet Heer offers an overview of the careers of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. There are a couple of things in it that seem to me like errors. Stan Lee's real name is Stanley Lieber, not Leiber. (The article also misspells the name of Jordan Raphael, whose book is being reviewed […]