You remember him: The guy who drew the comic panel, The Far Side. Here's what he's been doing. And here's where you can order the upcoming two-volume set, The Complete Far Side, which features every damned one of his cartoons. It's almost a hundred bucks for 1,250 pages. Someone else will have to figure out […]
They're saying Gray Davis can't be saved and Arnold can't be stopped. That's not how I'm voting but I don't care enough about Davis or Bustamante to get worked up over it. I cannot understand anyone's enthusiasm for Schwarzenegger, especially that of folks who have moralized in the past against so many things that he […]
I was wrong. More "fixes" need to be performed on the design here. I found out it reads fine in about 90% of all browsers but does weird things in, for example, the one Marv Wolfman has. So I'll be experimenting the next day or three to find the template format that pleases the most […]
William Saletan on the ban on "Partial-Birth Abortions," and what it means. […]
This is a dangerous thing to say…but I think I've finished installing the new "look" for this site and gotten out all visible bugs. If you see something that looks like it's not supposed to be the way it is, please drop me a note. […]
Also over at The New York Times is this article which explains that Joe Simon has settled his lawsuit with Marvel Comics over the ownership of Captain America. (Here's the same article via Google News for those of you who fear registration.) This is not a surprising development to anyone who's been following the case. […]
Interesting op-ed columns in The New York Times from their liberal columnist, Paul Krugman, and their new conservative columnist, David Brooks. Krugman's is about how the reconstruction of Iraq is making a lot of Bush's friends richer. Brooks writes about how a lot of folks are getting irrational in their hatred of George W. Bush, […]
I'm on a couple of mailing lists for Las Vegas news. I just got one that said the Bellagio Hotel there is discontinuing their $100,000 chips in mid-October. If I have any lying around, I need to go cash them in before then. Forgive me if posting here is light for the next day or […]
Several of you have informed me that TV Land ran the "Turkeys Away" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati as part of their Friday night tribute to Gordon Jump. Let's all watch for it to be scheduled again. For those of you interested in the matter of the show's soundtrack alterations, here's a link to a […]
One of the great things about doing comic books (and I really do think it makes for better comics) is that you often collaborate with friends. Almost all of my happy experiences in the field have been when the artist was someone I could go to lunch with and have a good time, talking about […]
Dave Sikula, a good friend of this site, sends the following about the late Donald O'Connor… Just a note about Mr. O'Connor. I don't know if you saw Bring Back Birdie in its blessedly-brief run, but I was lucky enough to be at the first preview, when the actor's nightmare came true, and everything that […]
Would you like to own the tuxedo or cocktail dress that some big TV star wore to the Emmys or Golden Globes? Would you just like to know their sizes? (Conan O'Brien takes a 42 long) Many are up for bids over on eBay. […]
Here's a link to a short piece over at the L.A. Times on the offering of the Silent Movie Theatre. (Thanks to about eleven of you who sent it.) […]
As you may be able to tell, we're installing a new design here at news from me. As my luck would have it, the new parts of the template are working just fine but some things have gone screwy with the parts I didn't change. For the next few days, this page may look a […]
Shelly Goldstein calls my attention to an ad in the real estate section of the Los Angeles Times — the paper version, not the online one. The Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax is for sale. Again. For those of you who don't know the history of the place, I refer you to this article. It […]