Had lunch yesterday with my buddy Dan Gheno. I've known Dan since around 1970 and watched him turn from a devout comic fan/letter column filler into a superb painter and art teacher who has been, among other achievements, recently cover-featured on American Artist. This is not to suggest he is not still a devout comic […]
Good morning, year! Spent this a.m. doing a global search-'n'-replace to change all the copyright notices on this site. My pal Nat Gertler pointed out (and I have fixed) garbled text in a couple of columns. In converting Microsoft Word files to HTML, a number of odd things have happened, here and there, including dropped […]
Happy year to come and let's all hope that none of the predictions of dire economy and Dubya incompetence come to pass. Here's a plug for a new CD by one of my favorite musical groups. Big Daddy is presently and sadly inactive, but a division of their former label, Rhino, has brought out The […]
The folks at Dark Horse Comics have just released the first of two volumes reprinting Little Annie Fanny, as created by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder and friends, and published in Playboy Magazine. Perhaps needless to say, what once seemed risqué and adult is now about as naughty as the fart jokes on Bevis and Butthead. […]
Billy Barty's last TV appearance was on the E! True Hollywood Story profile on Sid and Marty Krofft that debuted on Christmas Eve. Billy died the day before, and Marty spent quite some time on the phone, trying and failing to locate someone at the E! Channel to ask that they insert some sort of […]
Have you seen those clever parody commercials the Eveready battery people have running on TV? The ones that are interrupted by the rabbit with the drum? Well, several of them give addresses for websites for the fictitious products. Like, there's the one for "Growzan," a new hair-grow medicine. The commercials, if you listen carefully, are […]
Okay I know, I know! For years now it seems, I've been answering the eternal question of when I was going to do this with, "I stand on my Constitutional right not to have a website." But since our Constitution doesn't seem to mean a lot lately, I figured it was about time I got […]