Kamden Spies wants to know… While I know a lot about comics, I don't know a lot about the magazine distribution end of the industry. Throughout comics history, lots of titles transition from one to another. For example, a title like Wacky Duck at Timely in 1947 ended with issue #7 but its numbering continued […]
And now, here's Sam Robson singing solo-four-part-harmony on Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time." Or maybe this is eight-part harmony. Or nine. Or ten… […]
The second the shooting of those legislators in Minnesota was reported, we had people all over the news and the Internet trying to blame it on whoever they considered the opposition party and its leaders. You'd think they'd wait until at least a little was known about the alleged shooter but I guess they never […]
Back here, we were talking about the various specials and programs featured on an anthology series called ABC's Wide World of Entertainment. I said, with regard to the concept of rotating shows, "I suppose that worked somewhere at some point on one of the three networks we had then but no example springs to mind." […]
Not that anyone needs any further proof that Mike "MyPillow Guy" Lindell is a few feathers short in the head-stuffing department but… Late Monday, a Colorado-based federal jury ruled that he defamed Eric Coomer, a former employee of Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems and ordered Lindell to pay $2.3 million bucks in damages. Mr. Lindell immediately […]
So it's like 36 days until this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego…time for my way-overused joke about how if you're going and you'll need a parking space, leave now. To answer the two most-asked questions I'm getting right now about this stellar annual event: No, my best friend Sergio Aragonés will not be at […]
And now, here's Dan Wright singing solo-four-part-harmony on Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time"… […]
Jon Stewart tonight on The Daily Show… […]
Here's a little over an hour of the anchors of The Daily Show talking about their program at a recent event at the TV Academy. They do these to perhaps impress Emmy voters and to maybe — just maybe — beat out John Oliver… […]
Yesterday, I linked you to Billy Joel's music video for his big hit, "For the Longest Time." It's inspired a lot of cover recordings and many of them are…well, I don't know quite what you call them. They're videos where one or two guys sing four-part harmony with themselves. Here's one I featured here before […]
Sorry to hear that Billy Joel is having medical issues and has had to cancel all future live appearances. I've always liked his music and also what I've seen of him when he was just talking, not performing. He's widely loved and I'm sure not the only person hoping he has a full recovery, safe […]
It's Father's Day so I've decided to rerun this column which will tell you what kind of father I had. As you'll see, I was very, very fortunate in that department… I've been posting stories here for some months now about my mother. It's Father's Day so I've decided to write about my father. My […]
Yesterday as I'm sure you know, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband were shot dead in what's being described as a "politically motivated assassination" and Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot by, they're saying, the same person. This is a dreadful thing which ought to […]
Well, a lotta folks online seem to be very happy that (a) the "No Kings" protests yesterday were wildly successful and (b) that Donald Trump's military parade and birthday celebration was not. We're just starting to see the revisionism that these two things were not as they appeared but that's just denial of reality. It's […]
My buddy Gary Sassaman is back with another video about comics he loved as a kid. This one is about his favorite Superman artists and I'm linking you to it even though Gary and I differ on a few folks in that category. I first knew Superman as…well, I first knew him as George Reeves […]