Here we have another episode of The Red Skelton Hour, this one from September 23, 1969. Red's main guest was Peter Graves who, in the years before he appeared in Airplane, was not someone you might have booked for a comedy show. Mr. Graves was then the star of Mission Impossible (also on CBS, of […]
I'm imagining Donald Trump calling Rudy Giuliani in the hospital and saying, "No, I won't pay you the huge amount of money I owe you for legal fees. But I'll give you your choice of a Trump Bible, a poster of me as Superman or The Presidential Medal of Freedom!" […]
A follower of this site who shall remain nameless wrote to ask me to explain about the voice credits at the end of the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I've covered some of this before but here's a more detailed explanation…and the first thing you should know is that they were not complete and sometimes not accurate. […]
Nine men and women of medicine who once led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under both Republican and Democratic administrations have written an open letter you might want to read. If you don't have the time, I'll summarize it for you: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fucking idiot who doesn't know the […]
Just did some surfing on the Internet and saw an amazing number of rumors that Donald Trump is dead, is about to be dead, had a stroke, is having some limb amputated, etc. As far as I can tell, not one of these comes from anyone who would be in a position to know if […]
It's September…the time when Summer winds down, the kids go back to school and Evanier hits you up for money. This blog costs me several thousands dollars a year to maintain and keep running…and yes, it can be done for less. But some years ago, I tired of it occasionally crashing and being off-line and […]
I gave up watching most of Bill Maher on HBO because I felt that more and more of what he said and did on Real Time was click-baity (to coin a new term we need). He also got on a kick of discussing medicine and health with all the expertise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. […]
I kept meaning to post this but I also kept not getting around to it. This was on Seth Meyer's show a few weeks ago and it's one of the cleverest things I've seen on late night teevee in many a year… […]
A recurring message on this blog is not to get your medical advice from (a) The Internet or (b) anyone who seems to have studied medicine on The Internet. Even before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stepped into power and began managing our country's health care without the slightest fucking clue as to what he's doing…replacing […]
I haven't mentioned it lately on this blog but I have an odd semi-preoccupation in the kind of high-speed car chases that seem to pop up about once a day in Southern California and, obviously, elsewhere. My main fascination is with how the news covers them. A police pursuit is one of the few times […]
Every year on Saturday at Comic-Con, I host two back-to-back panels — Quick Draw! and Cartoon Voices I — that fill Hall 6BCF to the point where hundreds of folks who want to get in can't get in. And every year, some person posts on Facebook or somewhere that one or both of these panels […]
Can you spare an hour and twenty-four minutes? I've been sleeping weird hours and this morning at 3 AM, I was lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether to get up and go to my office or try to get back to sleep. I picked up my cellphone, flipped over to YouTube and randomly […]
Believe it or call me a bigger liar than our president…but it's almost time to start thinking about next year's Comic-Con International in San Diego. As the subject line says, we have 328 days until it convenes — which, by an odd coincidence, is the same number of panels I expect to be hosting at […]
A lot of folks think that all the comic book creators of "The Golden Age" are gone. Well, almost. There are a few of them still with us…like Sy Barry, the longtime artist of the newspaper strip, The Phantom, and an important contributor to DC Comics, among other firms, from the late forties to the […]
10 Debunked Lies Donald Trump Has Repeated In The Last Week Alone. Some people (including Donald Trump Jr.) are claiming that trans people commit a disproportionate percentage of mass shootings. This is, of course, a lie. The guy in the Oval Office — who, by the way, is redecorating it to look like a bathroom […]