Groucho Marx hosted the original You Bet Your Life quiz show for fourteen seasons, starting on radio and moving into television. Since he stopped, there probably hasn't been a week when someone in the game show profession didn't say to someone else, "Hey, how about if we revive You Bet Your Life with…" and then […]
So let's see…The New York Times lists some of the bullshit things Elon Musk has claimed about cutting government spending. Fact Check.org discusses the latest real stupid things Robert Kennedy Jr. is advocating about Bird Flu that stand to make a lot of people and animals sick or dead. And as Snopes points out, Trump […]
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I had a great time at the opening day of WonderCon today…but then I always have a great time at WonderCons. Lots of people to see. Lots of stuff to buy. Just being around so many people enjoying themselves is not without its value. And I'm too tired to write much more than that right […]
Steve Benen over on The Maddow Blog points out how Donald Trump's spin on the Group Chat scandal is not being believed…not even by Donald Trump. And Benen lists some of the many times Trump has dismissed legitimate investigations as "witch hunts." […]
When it came time to find someone to replace Bob Barker as host of The Price is Right, the folks in charge auditioned a number of different possible choices…and then the job went to Drew Carey, who I believe hadn't even auditioned. Some friends of mine are shocked that I think Drew Carey does a […]
About a dozen people have written this week to ask me if the panels I'm doing at WonderCon will be recorded, streamed, put on You Tube, made available for sale, etc. The answer — and this goes for Comic-Con, about which folks ask the same — is generally a no. Some people who attend the […]
WonderCon Anaheim starts tomorrow and the last I heard, they still have badges available. If they don't, it will probably say so here and if they do, that page will tell you how to get one or more. Here for the last time is the schedule of panels on which you'll find me. I've had […]
As just about everyone knows by now — including the folks scurrying to deny it — a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat among senior Trump administration officials as they were discussing an upcoming U.S. airstrike on Yemen. Trump and some (not all) of his aides insist no war plans were being texted […]
And here's another video about Jerry Herman… Turning for a sec to those who come to this blog to learn more about how comic books are created: A commonly-held but erroneous assumption by some is that a comic book story is the work of five separate people — six if you count the editor. There's […]
Donald Trump is continuing to run against Joe Biden. He's now claiming that under Biden, no one wanted to join the military and now people are flocking to do so, all because of Trump. That ain't true and Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post has the numbers to prove it. […]
Do you like Jerry Herman music? I do — so I enjoyed this hour of Mr. Herman discussing his career. It includes performances of some of his most acclaimed songs and one of the singers is my pal Jason Graae… […]
A whole bunch of folks, myself included, grew up on comic books and began writing and/or drawing them in the seventies and eighties. People got into the industry before us, of course, but in those two decades, there was a huge influx of New Talent, some of which offered "new" without much in the "talent" […]
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is in a lot of trouble. The sloppy way this nation's war plans were accidentally leaked seem pretty indefensible and the few folks who seem to be defending him are the kind who'd be demanding resignation — if not public execution — if a cabinet official of the opposition party […]
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Los Angeles keeps losing restaurants with a lot of history. The Pacific Dining Car, in business since 1921, burned irrevocably to the ground early the morning of March 20. It was the second or third fire there, depending on which source you believe, since the place closed in 2020 for COVID. The owners were still […]
Jon Stewart this evening. It's all about Donald Trump's concept of the First Amendment: Free speech for me but not for thee… […]