If, like me, you have trouble understanding why a guy who seeks the highest office in our land would go to a military cemetery and grin and give a "thumbs up" signal…well, Jonathan V. Last has what seems to me like a good explanation. Simple summary: Because wherever Trump goes, it's not about where he […]
And speaking of what I was speaking about in the previous item here: In 1970 when Jack Kirby quit Marvel Comics and defected to the enemy — otherwise known as DC Comics — one of the first of many characters he created for his new publisher was Morgan Edge. Mr. Edge was the slimy, mob-connected […]
Today in the "I Shoulda Known" Department, we have this: Last night after watching the great Blake Edwards documentary on PBS, I noted how one of his films I'd never seen — Wild Rovers (1971) — was reportedly ruined by studio interference. Studio Head (though not for long) James Aubrey severely hacked down its length, […]
I just watched and can highly recommend the new American Masters profile on PBS, this time covering film director Blake Edwards. I liked a lot of his movies and, as sometimes happens with a filmmaker, felt a kind of connection to the guy. And it's a good documentary as evidenced that it made me want […]
I didn't write anything when Phil Donahue passed away recently and I should have. He was the most successful of the small (and getting smaller) group of TV talk/interview hosts who have done it with some dignity and a dearth of sensationalism. If you watch the video below, you'll find moments when he talks a […]
Donald Trump, who said just days ago that he would be "great for women and their reproductive rights" now says he'll vote against a Florida initiative which would give women greater reproductive rights. He's said a great many other contradictory things about the abortion issue plus outright lies like that the pro-choice movement is pushing […]
Folks like the author of this article are queuing up to watch whatever there is to watch of Jerry Lewis's never-completed, disowned 1972 non-movie, The Day the Clown Cried. Most do not seem eager to see it because they think there is hidden wonderment there. Most seem to expect it to be exquisitely awful and […]
We haven't had one of these Barbershop Quartet Mob videos here for a while so here they are — The Ambassadors of Harmony from 2015. This is the way the Broadway musical of Hairspray should have ended… […]
Sorry if posting here is a bit erratic. I fixed the problem with posting yesterday but I can't seem to fix the odd sleep patterns I've fallen into lately. I am however awake enough to thank all those who've donated to our little online telethon here. We're not yet to our goal, which is the […]
You can find polls that show Kamala/Walz ahead of Trump/Vance by 2-3 points with a margin of error of 2-3 points. You can find polls that show a closer race. You can even find right-wing polls (like Rasmussen) that will show the right-wing candidate(s) ahead by serious margins…and they'll continue to do that until a […]
Here are two vintage commercials, the first of which is for a toy that I can't imagine anyone selling today. It's from Mattel's Zero M line which allowed kids to pretend they were secret agents with various items that transformed into cap pistols so you could pretend to shoot your parents and playmates dead. The […]
A tech problem is preventing me from writing anything new here tonight but I tricked it so I could write this message and post another link asking for money to keep this blog afloat and free. Now I'll post an already-prepped video link and hope things will be more functional in the morning. […]
In case you're worried about the big auction being staged by Cartoonists for Kamala, fear not. The date is not until September 15 and I'll post info on how to participate well before then. […]
The Cook Political Report — which analyzes elections and is very careful about saying someone is ahead in a state — has shifted North Carolina from "Leans Republican" to toss-up and has moved Minnesota and New Hampshire to "Likely Democrat." This is still a close, either-person-could-win race. Ed Kilgore has a good article up about […]
Jack Kirby would have been 107 years old today but if he isn't with us, his influence still is. It's not just that characters he created or co-created are continued in comics and expanded into TV shows and movies. It isn't even that darn near everything he wrote and/or drew in comics keeps being reprinted, […]