news from me

Gonna be busy the next day or so. Sorry. Surely you can find something else worth reading on the Internet.

This link is too good not to steal off Cartoon Brew. The Daily News in New York has posted a slide show of the giant balloons made for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Great images.

Yesterday afternoon around 2:30, I had an urgent need to get something edible and quick. I was in a neighborhood containing two of my favorite places to do this but both, darn it, had decided to cl...

The TiVo folks have this great feature on their website that enables TiVo owners to program their TiVos over the Internet. You have to have a Series 2 or Series 3 TiVo and you need to sign up for t...

I'm still busy but this can't wait: A number of you have called my attention to a great sale on Amazon. Remember that 40-episode Howdy Doody set I spotlighted the other day? The one that sold for t...

For reasons I may or may not get around to explaining soon, posting on this website will be light for the next few days and I may be even worse than usual at responding to e-mails. Ergo, I am post...

My friend Roger, who's still angry 'n' outraged over John McCain's defeat, is comforting himself by becoming very positive that Sarah Palin will not only be the G.O.P. nominee in 2012 but that she'...

The Archive of American Television has posted their complete oral history interview with George Carlin. The entire chat, which runs around three hours, was conducted last December and in it, Carlin...

You following the Coleman-Franken recount in Minnesota? The latest headlines say Coleman is ahead by 120 votes but if you read a little further, you realize that number is kinda meaningless because...

Reader Jim Engel called the company that has released those Howdy Doody DVDs I plugged earlier today. They told him that the episodes on the shorter DVD are all included on the longer one. As I men...