My pal Gary Sassaman used to be the guy in charge of Programming at Comic-Con International and he also was the guy in charge of Publications there. He did a fine job in both departments. He has a deep and longtime love for many comic books of his youth and I happen to have the […]
I embed a lot of video links on this blog. If at any point, some video seems to be in the wrong window, that almost certainly is a problem on your end, not mine. It means the cache on your web browser has too much stuff in it and it's getting confused. What you need […]
Today is going to be a busy day of deadlines and Zoom conferences and other things that may keep me from blogging at my usual pace. I am also way behind in answering e-mails so please forgive me for all of this. In the meantime, I'm awaiting a delivery from Costco of many items, two […]
If a legal free copy of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein could be found on the Internet, I'd link you to it here as it's, to me, the perfect Halloween flick. Instead, you'll have to settle for this well-made short documentary on the Abbott and Costello Meet [Name of Monster] films. Most comedians made movies […]
I'm not paying much attention to the election. You can easily find articles online where learned men and women will predict every possible scenario next Tuesday so there's not much point in reading any of them. I've decided to save up my outrage for then because you know that no matter how the ballots are […]
This is my almost-annual post about why I don't like Halloween. I run it each year and usually I change the name of the anti-gay person in the last paragraph — but if you've read it before, there's no need to read it again… At the risk of coming off like the Ebenezer Scrooge of […]
Walter Lantz ran a cartoon studio that made films from roughly 1928 until 1972, most notably of his character Woody Woodpecker but also of Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, The Beary Family and others. Like just about everyone else who made cartoons during his heyday, he began putting them on television in the fifties. The Woody […]
Hey, can anyone who uses an iPhone suggest a good Blackjack app for mine? I want one that's free with no ads or "in-app purchases" or which I can try out and then, if I like it, pay a few bucks for it and never get ads or offers of "in-app purchases." I've tried a […]
This may or may not be the last one of these before the election. I'm not thinking that much about it and I have the feeling that with so much early voting and so much we've heard about the match-up, the winner has already been decided. We just don't know who it is yet…a condition […]
I link here to a lot of videos about Saturday Night Live and also about The Muppets. Here's a twenty-minute documentary on how The Muppets were a part of the early days of SNL. It was not a happy marriage of talents… […]
Jeff Bezos has written this editorial-type statement defending the Washington Post's decision — which is to say, his decision (ultimately) — to not endorse in this presidential election. This is in response to many subscriptions being canceled since this was announced. He doesn't say how many it is but N.P.R. says it's over 200,000, which […]
I started going to Las Vegas around 1986, just in time to pay one (1) visit to the Silver Slipper casino on The Strip. I went in and walked around the place, absorbing the sense of Old Vegas that it had then….a sense that is nowhere to be found in that city now. I played […]
From Randall Jessica Rainbow… […]
As I've mentioned here more times than I've plugged Frank Ferrante, my favorite movie is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Another film of the sixties that I like a lot is The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, which was written by William Rose. Mr. Rose and his wife Tania wrote It's […]
My longtime pal Paul Harris and I agree on most things but I don't think we do on this issue of newspapers declining to endorse presidential candidates due to their wealthy owners fearing retaliation from Donald Trump. Here's what Paul had to say and he's right that no newspaper endorsement is going to swing undecided […]