Empowered
I may have underestimated the Department of Water and Power. They said my electricity would be restored by 10 PM and it came back on at 9:53. Wish it could be that simple for everyone. […]
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Wednesday Evening
It's a terrifying night in and around Los Angeles…and please forgive any typos in this as I am thumb-typing on my iPhone in a house that has been sans electricity for almost 24 hours. Soon, they say, there will be light, "they" being the L.A. Department of Water, Power and Questionable Time Estimates. The fire […]
Powerless
The fires that are ravaging Southern California are still nowhere near me and likely to stay that way…but we've been without electricity since 8:54 last night and I sense my area is way down on the repairfolks' "To Do" list. Which is fine. Others need help way more. I just thought I'd tell you why […]
Tuesday Afternoon
There's an awful fire burning in Pacific Palisades. I have many friends who live there and I sure hope they and their homes are okay. I've had a couple of texts and e-mails asking if I've been evacuated. I appreciate the concern but I'm pretty far away from Pacific Palisades or from a couple of […]
ASK me FOLLOW-UP: Kirby at Gold Key?
Following-up on our previous ASK me, Gene Popa wrote to ask… In response to Andrew Paquette's question, you said (and I paraphrase) that Jack's preference when he went to DC was to produce his issues himself (with his own staff), and submit the completed work to the publisher. I'm curious, in 1969 (when he left […]
Today's Video Link
I'm a big fan of Saturday Night Live. No, let me rephrase that: I'm a big fan of the overall concept and tradition of Saturday Night Live. Like you (probably) I've found it unwatchable during certain seasons including the recent ones. I no longer have my DVR snag every episode. When I watch, I watch […]
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Whenever we come across a new staging of this song, we love to feature it here. The song is "The Rhythm of Life" from the musical, Sweet Charity. And the performers are from the BBC series, Strictly Come Dancing… […]
ASK me: More Kirby Kwestions
My old pal Andrew Paquette sent me a couple of questions about Jack Kirby. Here's the first one… Did Kirby ever express a preference for his Marvel, DC, or earlier work? I ask because they are so different from each other. Lately, I've been buying copies of Popular Romance and Justice traps the Guilty. The […]
Today's Video Link
Here are old clips of Jon Stewart talking to Robin Williams, Norm MacDonald and Richard Lewis. And come to think of it, these would have to be old clips, right? […]
Friend in the Hospital
I currently have a couple of friends who are hospitalized and that's led to a lot of calls and texts from mutual acquaintances asking, "How is he? What have you heard?" It's understandable and in most cases commendable for one person to care about about the health of another but there's also a certain…I'm not […]
Saturday Night All Over Again
As you may recall, I liked the second half or so of Saturday Night, the movie about the first telecast of the show we now know as Saturday Night Live. The first half, I was too distracted by (a) noticing how much the actors did or did not replicate the real people they were playing […]
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In my opinion, one of the best late night hosts of the last few decades was Craig Ferguson, especially years 2-9 of his ten-year run. The first year, he seemed to be trying to figure out the job and what his show was. The last year, he sometimes seemed bored and he spent a lot […]
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This is a barbershop quartet called Midtown and this is their version of the theme from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon show. They do sing the hell out of it… […]
Today's Double Feature
Once again, Mark links you to feature films that are currently — and by that, I mean as I post this — free for viewing without ads on YouTube. Any second now, they may suddenly contain commercials or cost money to view. But at this precise moment, they don't… This is Airplane!, the 1980 comedy […]
A Peeve
This may not be my pet peeve but it's a peeve nonetheless. I just saw a message in the vast wasteland that is Facebook from some comic book fan who was hating bigly on a long-deceased comic book artist of the past. His gripe about this artist? That he didn't always get the costumes "right" […]