I've recommended articles by Joe Conason before and I'll highly recommend his current one. It's about Dick Cheney stonewalling on his energy commission while Republicans are leaking details of Bill Clinton's confidential conversations with Ehud Barak. Here's the link. And another aspect of the same situation is covered over on Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points. […]
Our pal Lorenzo Music passed away on a Saturday morning and I posted an obit here that evening. Word of his departure didn't make the wire services until Tuesday or Wednesday but it was all over the Internet by Sunday night, prompting many, many expressions of regret…and a few folks pondering if, perhaps, it wasn't […]
Just received my copy of Groucho: A Photographic Journey, which is a fancy new book by Arthur "Son of…" Marx. It's a beautiful book of photos, most of which I'd never seen before. And if I'd never seen them, odds are you haven't, either. If you care enough about the Marx Brothers — Groucho, of […]
Well, no one I care about died today, so we'll put another $20 in the jackpot…and I'll use this space to plugone of my books. Last year, Sergio Aragonés and I did a six-issue mini-series for DC Comics and all six issues have just been reprinted in a nice, little trade paperback book. It's called […]
What you see above is a bad picture taken from the cover of one of Dave Barry's comedy records. This is not the Dave Barry who presently writes a syndicated humor column. This is the other Dave Barry, and he passed away recently. Here's the AP wire report… Actor-Comedian Dave Barry Dead at 82 LOS […]
Want to know my problem with the press? A lot of it is demonstrated by a commentary piece that ran recently in The Wall Street Journal lambasting Hillary Clinton and apparently misrepresenting a lot of facts in order to do so. Over on a website called ConWebWatch, an author named Joe Moran laid down a […]
NBC has been running and rerunning a limited number of vintage SCTV episodes in the Later slot, every night after Conan O'Brien. I'm told that they're not airing a wider array of episodes because, being up in Canada and all, the original series was very lax about clearing rights to the songs they used. Ergo, […]
Every day, Monday through Friday, I make a point of visiting Comic Book Resources, a fine website that covers the funnybook biz. There, you'll find some fine columnists, including Steven Grant and "Gail," and you'll also find the daily column of my long-time pal, Scott Shaw! It's called Oddball Comics and it's an outgrowth of […]
Back in the Sixties, a comic book series called T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents failed to attract a large-enough audience to keep its publisher afloat. How odd then that, more than thirty years later, there are enough fans of the comic to warrant a whole issue of Comic Book Artist devoted to it. But there apparently are. Jon […]
I've received a number of e-mails asking me who's going to take over as the voice of Garfield now that Lorenzo Music has left us. (I've also received an embarrassing number of phone calls and e-mails from folks who covet the job.) The answer is that no one involved in the Garfield business wants to […]
You are gazing on the rarely-seen face of writer-actor Lorenzo Music, who passed away ten days ago, and who was — as I and many others have noted — a wonderful creative force and friend. This photo is fairly recent and it was on a handout at the memorial service held last night at the […]
No, I haven't forgotten you, my friends. I've just been buried up to here in deadlines. (In case the webcam isn't working and you can't see me, I'm holding my hand under my chin. The third chin from the bottom, in fact.) We will be back soon with new comments and links and fun things […]
I neglected to thank B. Baker for the tip-off on the article about The Projectionist. Thank you. B. Baker. […]
How do you know when political reporters have absolutely nothing to write about? Answer: They write about Al Gore's chances in 2004. Isn't it a little early for that? All this talk about who'll be the Democratic nominee for prez in '04, how he'll fare against Bush, whether Cheney will be on the ticket and […]
Nice article in today's New York Daily News about The Projectionist. This was a brilliant but undercirculated little movie made back in the sixties, starring Chuck McCann and the man we now know as Rodney Dangerfield. It deals with a lonely film buff who fantasizes himself into the movies he's screening, and it has a […]