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 […]
Wow! Millions of people are turning out for "No Kings" protest rallies all across the nation. This must be costing those unknown parties who hire all these paid protestors a fortune! […]
My foot is forbidding me to go out and join the mass protests today but I can put up a banner on my blog and leave it up all weekend. This may fall into the category of The Least I Could Do but it's something. I can also express my open-mouthed astonishment that we even […]
Jim Henson died on May 16, 1990 and a lot of people cried…including a lot of people who never got to actually meet this extraordinary man but felt like they had. I did once — I'm sure I've told that story before on this blog — and he was just as nice and smart a […]
I used to occasionally do a post on this blog where I'd identify a "Person I'm Glad I'm Not Today" or words to that effect. Then I'd name someone who was in a whole lot of trouble with no chance of belief in sight. Well, for the record, a person I'm glad I have never […]
Here's someone who's not Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post fact-checking a lot of the things Trump and his mob have been claiming about California. I'll quote this one paragraph… In California, violent crime is down, and the unemployment rate is close to the national average. The state recently overtook Japan as the world's fourth-largest […]
Hey, could someone who knows how to correct Wikipedia make a fix on this page about the San Diego Comic Convention? People keep writing to me to point out that it says that in 1992, there was a celebration of Jack Kirby's 75th birthday and that Phil Foglio was the host. That wasn't Phil Foglio. […]
Some folks affiliated with the Peacock Network were producing these "Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live" videos which take a look at each season and the backstage details — who hosted, who was fired, how the show changed, etc. They mysteriously stopped with Season 20 back in January of this year but […]
Michael Grabowski wrote to ask me this question about Mae Questel, who did loads of cartoon voices in her day…and commercials such as for the product she's clutching in a photo below. She voiced a lot of popular characters but the two biggies would be Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. In fact, she even voiced […]
It's been a while since I posted a video from the "Legal Eagle" but here he is, discussing the case against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland immigrant who was deported to El Salvador last March and has now been brought back to the U.S. to have the trial he should have before his deportation. […]