The cover of just about every monster magazine ever published except for Famous Monsters of Filmland can be viewed here. Many of the covers for Famous Monsters of Filmland can be found here. The covers for Life Magazine can be viewed here. The covers for a great many issues of TV Guide are over here. […]
Did you like those little Bazooka Joe comic strips that come wrapped around Bazooka Bubble Gum? Then this is the website for you. Did you like Wacky Packages, those little stickers that came with gum and parodied well-known products? Then this is the website for you. Did you like Garbage Pail Kids, those cards depicting […]
Over on Slate, Jack Shafer raises an issue that has interested me: How much of our current reporting, especially about Iraq, 9/11 and the Saudis, is based not just on anonymous sources but on anonymous sources of extremely dubious merit. And also on Slate, Daniel Gross notes some of the economic predictions made in the […]
Tab Hunter comes out of the closet for the nineteenth time. […]
David Plotz itemizes a number of popular misconceptions about 9/11. […]
A lovely, talented man died this morning in his native Texas. Larry Hovis was one of those people who could do anything: Sing, dance, write, act, produce. He was also an artist and handyman. When I knew him back in the seventies, his hands were like sandpaper from the work he was doing with wood […]
Six weeks after the great Richie Rich and Casper artist passed away, The New York Times notices! […]
Fred Kaplan on how 9/11 handed G.W. Bush a historic opportunity…and how he squandered it. […]
You may want to hold off ordering that DVD of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Several of the DVD-buff message boards are reporting things like what they're saying over at DVDTalk… Monty Python fans have yet another reason to fret. We've received numerous reports of problems with Universal Studios Home Video's DVD release for […]
John Cleese says that the members of Monty Python are presently too busy to do anything together. And the big castle that was seen in Monty Python and the Holy Grail has become a big tourist attraction. Also: The DVD of The Meaning of Life came out recently but I don't have it yet. It's […]
The New York Times' new conservative columnist isn't a lot more positive about George W. Bush's war plans than their old liberal columnist. In the meantime, the house editorial says some pungent things about the character of the current administration. […]
September 8, 2003 Before you read this, you might want to read Part 1 and Part 2. Two weeks ago, I reported on an ugly encounter that a group of us had with a tow truck driver. As I noted at the time, a lot of this seemed to be in violation of the vehicle […]
I am told there's a good review of my book, Mad Art, on page 19 of the new New York Times Book Review. I haven't seen it yet. By that, I mean I haven't seen the review. I've seen my book, Mad Art. I've even suggested you see my book, Mad Art, which you can […]
Here's William Saletan with one logical way to look at the speech Bush gave last night. Another is that it might be simpler just to give half of the 87 billion directly to Halliburton. […]
I'm not sure I even know how to describe the Degree Confluence Project. Its goal is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. You'll understand better what that means if you visit the site. (Don't thank me for this one. Thank […]