This week is The Masters golf tournament and Tiger Woods is there, playing in his first tournament since his November car accident and the revelations about his serial adultery. He did a press conference today where he once again, participated in the public flogging of his image. Now, let’s let him go play golf. The […]

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I am vaguely aware of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. She’s pretty enough, I guess, but she’s not drop dead gorgeous in my opinion, and I don’t even remember if she’s particularly good at her job, since I know enough about football that I generally ignore sideline reporters as superfluous at best, annoying at worst. But, […]

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I know that ordinarily, when one thinks of people in the comics industry, you think of people with artistic temperaments, and, if we’re talking about comics store owners, guys of limited scruples. Well, we lost two men in the industry over the past couple of weeks who were anything but. First, my condolences go out […]

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As we prepare for baseball season, there is yet another Wrigley Field story. For awhile, the Chicago Cubs have tried to find a way to obscure an advertisement for a casino across the street from the left field bleachers (positive spin – the team doesn’t want to condone gambling; my cynical side – the team […]

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Finally, after months of blackouts and finger-pointing, the corporate pissing contest between Comcast, owner of the Versus cable channel and DirecTV have come to an agreement. DirecTV had pulled the plug on Versus last August because DirecTV wanted to place the cable home of the NHL among other things, on a higher price package. DirecTV […]

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Even though it probably was the least suspenseful Academy Awards ceremony in many years, I stayed up far too long to watch it. I’ll join in the bandwagon: • I like Alec Baldwin and I like Steve Martin, but they sucked as hosts last night. They were unfunny, and almost made we wish for David […]

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I just sent a copy of my comic book collection and valuation to my insurance broker, and she sent me a message that it was good I had insurance and added a link to a story this week that a copy of Action Comics #1 from 1938 had sold to a collector for $1 million. […]

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