Today is, of course, 9/11 — a date that will always cause folks over a certain age to remember where they were that day in 2001, how they saw what happened happen and how it was so sad and so numbing at the same time. I woke up to messages on my answering machine — […]
I finally knocked off work on a script with a pressing deadline and made time to watch the debate. I thought Kamala Harris did great — a judgment I see all over the Internet and saw on Donald Trump's face on screen, starting around 30 minutes in. The man did not look happy. Of course, […]
And this time, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra favors us with a mini-symphony of tunes from old Tom & Jerry cartoons… […]
I'm not watching the Presidential Debate…or at least, not watching it live. I figure that if God had wanted us to watch everything live, he wouldn't have invented TiVos, streaming services, Betamax or VHS, network websites, YouTube, etc. God did invent all that, didn't He? And I figure that if either candidate says anything really […]
Let's note that of all the tributes and expressions of love being posted for the late/great James Earl Jones, no one has probably topped what Mark Hamill posted to social media… […]
Sorry to say, I have no real anecdotes or personal insights to go with the news that actor Peter Renaday has died at the age of 89. TMZ is reporting that "…cops did a welfare check at Peter's Burbank home Sunday after receiving a call, and they found him dead inside. The death appears to […]
It's been really hot in Los Angeles the last few days and it's made hotter, at least for me, with everyone talking incessantly about how hot it is. The heat doesn't bother me much but it does tend to send me into weird sleeping patterns which is why I'm up writing this at four in […]
The voice tracks for all the Garfield TV shows I worked on were recorded at Buzzy's Recording Studio on Melrose here in Los Angeles. Buzzy's, sadly, no longer exists but just about every actor you ever heard of — voice or otherwise — active during the years the studio was operating recorded something there. It […]
Very busy today but I'll post more than this later. This is Ben Meiselas of The Meidas Touch Podcast — a real good podcast to follow if you want to know the legal status and woes of our 45th President. The predictions of Mr. Meiselas and his partners Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo — […]
Here we have the the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and what are they playing? Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? Nope, none of them. They're playing Hoyt Curtin… […]
I keep coming across the above list on Facebook and elsewhere so I thought I'd take one entire minute to take inventory… Yes, I've used a rotary phone, a floppy disk, a typewriter, an encyclopedia, a phone book and a paper map. I've taken pics with a film camera, listened to music on a CD […]
Here's a nice mini-doc on Joe Besser's days with The Three Stooges. It takes the viewpoint I have — that he has been unfairly unappreciated. Yeah, the sixteen films he made with Moe and Larry were not great…but I don't think they were not great because of him. They were not great because Columbia was […]
Much must be done today so I won't be around a whole lot. As always, I will make it up to you later…especially you nice folks who contributed to our annual "Help Mark Pay For Keeping the Blog Online" campaign. We covered my annual outlay with enough left over for dinner for two from my […]
Seth Rudetsky introduces and accompanies my talented friend, Christine Pedi. This is what the show Evita would be like if various divas had the title role… […]
I don't post a lot of Happy Birthday wishes here because just about every day is the birthday of someone I know but I usually make an exception for my collaborator and best friend Sergio, who is AGE REDACTED today. He sure doesn't look or act like he's AGE REDACTED or even AGE MINUS 5-10 […]