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Those Who Know Him Best
91 people who worked for and with Donald Trump explain why he is unfit to be President of the United States. […]
Today's Video Link
Let's check in on Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live as it takes us through Season 13 — a pretty good season as I recall… […]
From the E-Mailbag…
My old pal Pat O'Neill just wrote me with a good point… As you probably know, most McDonald's restaurants are not owned nor operated by the McD's corporation. Rather, they are owned and operated by franchisees who pay a fee to McD's for use of the name and its products and trademarks. Therefore, when VP […]
Today's Political Comment
I'm back "live" and what I'm seeing online is a number of polls that say Kamala Harris is ahead 3-5 points and a number of polls that say it's about even. I'm going to believe the former but act like the latter is true. And it's another good day to not be Rudy Giuliani. I […]
Today's Video Link
The Marvel Comics Group began in 1939 (not under that name) and published zillions of comic books. It was not, however, until around 1966 that they made any real money doing anything besides publishing comic books. For long stretches of time in there, they didn't have many continuing characters who could be licensed or merchandised. […]
Tales of My Childhood #26
When I was a kid, I never went away to camp. No, let me make that stronger: When I was a kid, I never even thought of going away to camp. Not for an hour, not for a minute, not for a second, not for a nano-second. Leave my wonderful home and all my comic […]
Tales of My Father #15
Still trying to get some sleep and some pages done. Here's a rerun from 4/6/15… As I've mentioned here many times, my father spent most of his adult life working for the Internal Revenue Service. It was a job and here were the good things about it: The weekly paycheck was an absolute certainty. He […]
Another Obit I Missed…
Alex Hassilev — the last surviving member of the original lineup of the folk group, The Limeliters — died last April. I always liked those guys and still play their old records once in a while. (Well, to be accurate: I still play MP3s of their old records…) He was also in one of my […]
Tales of Me Going To See Shows on Broadway #3
Okay, here's a story I'm fairly sure I haven't told here. In late 1998, the hottest ticket on Broadway — the one scalpers were getting actual scalps for — was a revival of the musical Cabaret. It was directed by Sam Mendes, co-directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall and it starred Alan Cumming as the […]
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Today's Video Link
From CBS Sunday Morning for this Sunday morning… I have several e-mails asking me why there's no mention in the piece of MAD's longest-running illustrator, Sergio Aragonés. I would imagine that he was mentioned in the interviews but the piece only runs six and a half minutes so there wasn't time to include anything about […]
Merry Marvel Music
In 1966, a producer named Steve Krantz and an animation studio called Grantray-Lawrence produced 65 half-hours of The Marvel Super-Heroes — a syndicated cartoon series featuring Captain America, The Hulk, The Sub-Mariner, Iron Man and Thor. Years later when I asked Stan Lee, "Did anyone like that show?" his reply was, "Yeah, Steve Krantz. He […]
Personal Stuff
Mark is a little under the weather and also a lot under a deadline so I'm taking a day or three off from this blog. But I have some inventory goodies and a rerun or two to post so you won't miss me. There may be no current events and I'll probably be even lousier […]
Today's Political Comment
Kamala Harris has agreed to another Presidential Debate, this time on CNN with the same rules as the ABC one. Donald Trump is reportedly considering it but has not agreed. If I were Trump, I'd decline to show up but ask that the debate proceed with Harris debating an empty podium. Donald would do a […]
Tales From Las Vegas #1
So one day I was in Vegas, playing Blackjack at the Barbary Coast — a pretty good place to play back then. This was the early nineties and the Barbary Coast was located on the northeast corner of Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard South (aka "The Strip"). Since then, it's been sold and bought […]