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 […]
When a new show doesn't do well on Broadway, it usually disappears forever. No one, after all, is eager to invest money in a flop. But there are exceptions. The 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along ran for 44 previews and 16 performances and if anyone but Stephen Sondheim had written its score, you'd probably […]
I've decided to not look too much (if at all) at the news today. I feel so bad for the people whose lives are being imperiled and disrupted by Hurricane Milton and I'll probably feel worse if I keep seeing wet reporters showing us homes underwater and trees crushing cars. If my witnessing this would […]
If you search this blog for the term "October Surprise," you'll find a lot of posts where I suggested in some presidential election year that the "October Surprise" was that there was no "October Surprise." This year, we're only nine days into the month and we seem to have several contenders including the fact that […]
And here's what happened earlier this morning in Las Vegas: Huge fireworks show followed by the demolition of the remaining two towers of the Tropicana Hotel. This was a very Vegas moment… […]