Today's Video Link
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… […]
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Happy Sergio Day!
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 […]
ASK me: The CAPS Logo
Here's a fast one from Matt Tauber… As a founder of C.A.P.S., do you have any info on the "Steve Canyon"-inspired logo and who drew it? Yep. William Stout drew it and I think it was his idea to somewhat ape the style on Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon strip. Mr. Caniff was briefly a member […]
Go Read It!
As I've mentioned here, I was very impressed with the Democratic National Convention as a piece of television. I'm not talking about whether it helped Kamala Harris get a lot of votes. I have no idea how many of the people who tuned in were inclined to support her anyway and how many people who […]
C.A.P.S., R.I.P.
In 1975, there was a significant community in Los Angeles of folks who created comic books, comic strips and related forms of print media…but who did not know one another all that well. They didn't meet at "the office" because they all worked through different offices, often in other states. They didn't meet a lot […]
Today's Political Comment
Here's a prediction I doubt anyone will argue: Until the evening of Election Day — and maybe not even then — neither Harris nor Trump supporters are going to have a reason to feel comfortable that their candidate will win. Someone may be significantly ahead in either the projection of the Popular Vote or the […]
First Notice!
I cannot believe that I just had to make up a banner for Comic-Con International 2025. It feels like I just got back from the 2024 one and I know I still have bags to unpack. But this is your early warning that on September 21, there will be Returning Registration for those of you […]
Tales of Broadway #2
In March of 1994, a revival of the musical Damn Yankees opened at the Marquis Theater where it played for 519 performances, though not continuously. At one point, it closed for two months while the show was retooled to bring in a new star. I wound up seeing it four times, which I believe beats […]
Another One of These
And if you get tired of looking at the Gondwana Namib Park in Namibia, here's a webcam pointed at the Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park, also in Namibia. At this one, you will often find elephants, the occasional rhinoceros and a few other animals that don't seem to hang out much at the Gondwana […]
Today's Political Comment
This is kind of interesting. As I've mentioned many times on this blog when we've been discussing polls, there's one called the Rasmussen Poll which always swings wildly Republican/Right Wing. A lot of the poll aggregators don't include it in their aggregations because it always seems like such a skewed outlier. Needless to say, it's […]
Today's (Stolen) Video Links
This is such a great video link that I shamelessly stole it from the website of my friend Paul Harris. To assuage some of my guilt, please go over to Paul's website and read a few articles. This will be no hardship for you because everything he posts is of interest, especially when he hauls […]
Today's Video Link
Here's Julie Andrews singing a jazzed-up version of a song from My Fair Lady that she didn't sing in My Fair Lady… […]
Go Try It!
Hey, here's a website that might amuse you for about three minutes. It's called Random Street View and when you go there, it takes you to some random place on Google Maps. I just went there and it plunked me down in the middle of the General Anthony Clement McAuliffe 101st Airborne Memorial Highway in […]
Today's Political Comment
Not much change anywhere. Harris is still a few points ahead of Trump but just a few. This makes his supporters nervous that she'll beat him and her supporters nervous that she won't. Trump keeps doing things like his visit to Arlington and his double-talk on Abortion that you'd think would cost him voters but […]
Labor Day Labor
Someone on Facebook posted this photo of Jerry Lewis and Artie Forrest, probably in Vegas, probably there for Jerry's annual Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Artie was at least the director and often the producer of that ritual year after year. Arthur Forrest also may have held the world record for the most hours or […]