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From The Jack Paar Program for December 18th, 1964 — a big break for a new act… […]
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What I Did Last Night
Despite just being released from the hospital, I knew I couldn't miss the gala event this evening at the Skirball Cultural Center here in Los Angeles. It was the opening of two new exhibitions — Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanities and Away in the Catskills: Summers, Sour Cream, and Dirty Dancing. Guess which one I […]
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I think Seth Meyers is doing some of the best political comedy ever done on television. Some of you might say, "Well, that's because you're Liberal and so is he" and the answer to that is that non-Liberal political comedy isn't even in the game. No one has ever done it that well and it's […]
FACT CHECK: An Awful Lot of Them
Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post points out how Trump keeps spinning the news of the stock market to claim the good news is his doing and the bad news is Biden's. He also finds 32 false or misleading claims in Trump's recent interview with Time magazine. Daniel Dale of CNN finds another whole bunch […]
Groo Guest Stars
Everyone's favorite mindless warrior, Groo the Wanderer, makes a tidy cameo in today's episode of the always-clever comic strip, Slylock the Fox by Bob Weber Jr. That's one of two panels and you can see the other one and maybe find the differences between them over at www.slylockfox.com. Always a fun site to visit. For […]
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Quite a few years ago, the great Broadway songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb did this show. It's 52 minutes of them performing some of their most popular songs and a few you probably never heard. There are moments in it when Mr. Ebb looks like Albert Brooks in Broadcast News perspiring heavily but the […]
FACT CHECK: 100 in 100
CNN lists and debunks 100 lies that Trump has told in the first 100 days of his second presidency. And those are probably not the only ones. […]
Mark is Home…
I'm not blogging on my iPhone while lying on a gurney getting an Ultrasound like I was this morning. I'm at my computer in my house and writing this makes me really feel like I'm back. There will be a post here in the next day or two about Hospital Food and it will not […]
While I'm At It…
Seth Meyers last night was real good too… […]
I'm Still Away…
As most of you have correctly deduced, I'm dealing with some more medical issues. They're minor and already solved and I should be back to full presence in a day or so. I'm feeling pretty good and one of the things that made me feel pretty good waa watching this. It's Jon Stewart firing up […]
I Know I'm Away…
….but this is too important not to embed. If you haven't already seen it, see it… P.S. If the above video is not John Oliver explaining what an unqualified dufus Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, refresh your browser until that video appears and then watch it. Thank you. […]
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You've doubtlessly been asking yourself, "Evanier's been doing that blog of his for twenty-four years! When the hell is he going to get around to writing something about Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp?" Well, that time is now. Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp was a Saturday morning series on ABC in 1970 that was kind of like […]
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Mark is spending most of today resting after yesterday's surgery. It went so well they let me go home the same day but more sleep is feeling like a great idea so that's what I'll be doing. Shelly Goldstein was nice enough to send me this link to four numbers from the current Broadway revival […]
FACT CHECK: Ukraine, Gas, Eggs, Enlistments…
Donald Trump said he'd solve the Ukraine/Russia nastiness within twenty-four hours of taking office. He might not even wait that long. But now, a hundred-plus days into his second presidency, people still seem to be killing each other over there so he's trying to back-pedal from his claims or promises or whatever you want to […]
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Jack Katz, R.I.P.
Professor (and author) Arnold Kunka is reporting the passing of his friend — and I guess, mine — comic book creator Jack Katz. Jack Katz was born September 27, 1927 so he made it to the age of 97. Like just about everyone who got into comics when he did, he was enraptured by "the […]