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, […]
From Jeremy Hall… You mentioned the other day that you were once going to write an animated Mr. Magoo feature. Can you tell us anything about it? How did you get the job? I understand that it didn't go forward because the producer died but was anything done on it before that happened? Taking the […]
Matthew Wecksell turned me on to this. It's an episode of Hot Ones, the series where host Sean Evans interviews celebrities while they munch on increasingly-lethal chicken wings slathered in hot sauce. Sean's guest on the latest edition is — and I didn't believe this until I saw it — Donald Duck… Donald was animated […]
Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz are up a teensy bit more today in most polls. The single exception seems to be the Rasmussen Poll and in March of the last presidential election, I wrote this here… The Rasmussen Poll usually favors Republicans and it's now saying Trump's popularity is fairly high. No doubt he thinks […]
Advice from Jon Stewart… […]
As a wee lad — and yes, looking at me today you'd never imagine I was ever wee — I attended what is now called Westwood Charter Elementary School in West Los Angeles. While I was there, it was just Westwood Elementary and from what I can tell when I now drive by the place, […]
It's Randy Rainbow's latest and it might give you the idea that he doesn't care for Trump's V.P. pick… […]
Regular followers of this site — I believe I have some — may notice that it is online well over 99% of the time and it loads pretty fast. This is because after misadventures with several other hosting companies, I finally sprung for one of the top grade ones which, of course, is not cheap. […]
John Oliver's show is off until until September 8th but we are not without his presence on our screens…at least, our computer screens. When he goes on hiatus, they put an entire season of his past shows on YouTube…which I suspect means they've decided these shows will have little to no value as future reruns […]
Here's fifteen minutes of Ernie Kovacs as his character "Eugene" from a 1961 special. You may have heard how brilliant this guy was…and at times, he certainly lived up to that description. This was one of those times… […]
Not much to report today. Trump is claiming the polls show him ahead. You and I are both seeing ones that don't but I would imagine he will always claim that whether they do or don't. Kevin Drum has a good piece up about why everything Trump and Vance are saying about tariffs is off. […]
I recently watched the documentary on Jim Henson called Jim Henson: Idea Man. I thought it was really good and the only way Ron Howard could have made it better would have been to make it about ninety hours long…and it still wouldn't have done its subject full justice. It included snippets of the memorial […]
We're looking at three poll aggregators who take a lot of polls, analyze them and draw some conclusions. The Cook Political Report currently has Harris one percentage point ahead of Trump, Nate Silver's old site currently has her 3.6% ahead of him and Nate Silver's new site has her 4.3% ahead of him. The truth […]
From the 2000 American Comedy Awards Show, Nathan Lane and Martin Short sing a song about the glut of award shows…like, say, the American Comedy Awards Show. I don't know this for a fact but I'd bet cash money this song was written by Billy Barnes… […]
A couple of correspondents asked to hear more about this story Donald Trump made up about Kamala Harris visiting Vladimir Putin. Here's more about it. I suppose Trump might not have made it up himself. But he seems willing to repeat and spread anything he hears about anyone he considers an enemy and that's just […]