As I've mentioned on this blog, I've soured on Las Vegas, a place I used to visit so often that I briefly toyed with the idea of buying a small condo in that city and living, back-and-forth, there along with my native Los Angeles. The reason for the recent souring is a trend that started […]
From 1965: Walt Disney guests on The Jack Benny Hour… […]
Hey, here's another installment of Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live. This installment takes us through Season 22, a season I didn't watch often, though I had a lot of friends who told me I should. I find these recaps fascinating though and it's hard to believe that the folks making them […]
Dozens of online sources are reporting the passing of comic book writer-editor Jim Shooter at the age of 73, the cause being given as esophageal cancer. That's one of those "it shouldn't happen to anyone" ways to go. Jim had several enviable careers — writing for DC when he was a teenager…serving as Editor-in-Chief of […]
Here's a little piece of history that I stumbled across while Facebooking. It's a big card that a bunch of us signed for June Foray, the First Lady of Cartoon Voicing as some of us called her. She was a dear, sweet lady who was so, so generous with her time and talents. She had […]
Here's an important video John Oliver's show tonight… […]
So…what's in this bill that Trump is insisting Congress pass? Well, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it will make the deficit go way, way up and make the number of Americans who have health insurance go way, way down. Here's The New York Times reporting on the CBO. And here's one of their reporters, […]
Mark is very busy today and when Mark's very busy, he sometimes picks out a long post from a long time ago on this blog, writes a short intro to it in the third person and then posts it here. This first ran here on April 17, 2014… This story occurred in 1978. I was […]
Here at newsfromme.com, we love barbershop quartets…or any group singing a cappella. And no, this is not a video of one or more people singing "For the Longest Time." We also love TV theme songs, especially TV theme songs from shows for kids. We are therefore way-too-pleased to present a group called The Ashatones Barbershop […]
I love images — still or moving — of old Los Angeles. Here are some of the moving kind as filmed back in the thirties. The audio and color work are fake but the rest of what you'll see is real… […]
My favorite game show is…well, if you go way back, it would be something like I've Got a Secret or What's My Line? that gave witty people a chance to be witty, usually on live, anything-can-happen television. If we get into more recent ones — polished, edited, taped five or more a day — I […]
Here's a tour of the office and home of Mr. Robert Petrie, the head writer of the popular program, The Alan Brady Show. The folks who put these together, carefully researched what we saw of those locations on The Dick Van Dyke Show and ad-libbed their way around the other parts. When we're looking at […]
Hey, remember Kilmar Armando Abrego García? The man that ICE and its associates deported, then admitted he'd been wrongfully deported but it was impossible to bring him back, then they brought him back and now he's getting some Due Process and standing trial? I know, I know…so much has happened lately that it's hard to […]
Here we have an intriguing question from the fine funnybook artist, Christopher Cook… Hey, Mark! In your youth, did you have any cartoon crushes? The cartoon girls who you wish were real so you could get to know better? The girl you'd readily offer a shoulder to cry on? My first cartoon crush was Betty […]
I've decided to end the daily posts of various folks singing this song, though more may grace this site in the future. You and I need a break from these so here's three more and then tomorrow, I'll post something different. This is a group called The Overtones… This is a group made up of […]