The beginning of the COVID Lockdown feels like it happened decades ago but it was actually March of 2020. Just before things started closing left and right, Lewis Black did this comedy special. Watching it the other night was for me a well-spent hour… […]
The Walgreens chain has announced its plan to close 1,200 stores…which they could probably do by cutting back to one store per block in New York City. They currently have them all strategically placed to snag any customer who doesn't feel like walking up to 10 yards to the nearest Duane Reade. As I've mentioned […]
An awful lot of full movies are being uploaded, apparently quite legally, to YouTube. So for a while here, I'm going to link you to two of them each day. Let's start with a little Mel Brooks Film Festival, shall we? Here's Spaceballs from 1987… …and Life Stinks from 1991… […]
I don't have time today — or for that matter, the stomach — to write a long post about politics and the election. But go read Fred Kaplan and his summary of the new Bob Woodward book. The stuff about Trump's relationship with Putin is chilling. […]
Here's a link to someone's ranking of the 25 best episodes of my favorite TV program, The Dick Van Dyke Show. I agree with a lot of it but not all…so here's my list, going from my 25th favorite to my favorite. I'm sure your list is different from mine, which is okay except that […]
Back in this post, I highly recommended the latest episode of American Masters on PBS, which was a look at the life and work of writer-director Blake Edwards. If you haven't seen it, you can see it here. And if you want to see it here, see it soon because I don't think it'll be […]
I want to speak for a moment about Occam's Razor. In case you don't know what that is, I cribbed this explanation off some website… Occam's Razor is a principle of theory construction or evaluation according to which, other things equal, explanations that posit fewer entities, or fewer kinds of entities, are to be preferred […]
My all-time favorite entertainers, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, made a lot of great films but they never made a better one than The Music Box, It came out in 1932 and actually won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject. It also got Stan's endorsement as the best thing they ever did and while […]
I just want to point something out. I've been saying for months now that when one looks at polls, one should remember that a lot of possibly game-changing things would happen before the election that could not be predicted. That was my response to people telling me months ago that Trump was certain to win […]
One of the more controversial things I've posted on this blog is the following chart… I posted it some time ago and some people still want to argue that Duck Soup is a better movie than the two I listed above it. They want to argue this even though it's not a list of what […]
An awful lot of you liked this music video I linked to of a song by Herb Alpert. Jason Burbee wrote suggesting I also show you this one and that we all read this note that Alpert (apparently) penned about it… We wanted to make a video that was happy, upbeat and about real love. […]
In June of 2013, I had arthroscopic surgery performed on my right knee to repair the two tears in the meniscus in there. It helped for a while but only for a while. A little over three years later, I had the entire knee replaced. The day after the first of these procedures, I posted […]
In 1968, Dennis James — who you probably know best as a game show host — was the host of The All-American College Show featuring talented college kids. Here he is introducing a new group in their first time ever on television… […]
Here's the latest installment of Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live. This is Season 15 and while the thumbnail shows Jan Hooks, they don't feature a lot of her in this season review. I remember her being the best thing on the show in these years, though I admit I may be […]
I got two more calls today from folks pretending to be from Walgreens, trying to pry medical information out of me. I told the first guy he was a fraud and he said, "No, I have your complete medical history here." I don't think any pharmacy has my complete medical history and if he sure […]