Pin-up legend Bette Page died Thursday night. I never knew her; in fact, I never even knew of her until the late Dave Stevens started drawing her in the pages of his comic “The Rocketeer.” But since then, I learned about her photos, nude and clothed, conventional and bondage; the pictures she took for Irwin […]

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This sounds like something that would have been sung by Ian Dury. but, at least the first two items seem to go together, like eggs and bacon; or Bush and incompetence. But it isn’t the auto companies, or the banks, or the mortgage holders or shareholders that I want to talk about now. No, it’s […]

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I know that these end of year top 10 lists are completely arbitrary and always subject to the writer’s taste, but if that isn’t what a personal site is for, I don’t know what is. And I think that before all of the other “critics” get their ideas in, I’ll jump out first. Besides, I […]

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With the new James Bond adventure hitting U.S. movie screens today, I felt it a good opportunity to give you my own overview of the best and worst of the Bond films. I have been watching the films since I was five years old – my mother suffered, or more truthfully, her butt suffered through […]

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I do like Bill Maher. I watch his HBO show every week; I enjoyed his old show; and I saw “Religulous” at the Toronto Film Festival and laughed out loud. I especially enjoy when Maher brings out the ludicrous, irrational, rantings of Republicans and the overly religious. However, for a couple of seasons now, Maher […]

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There was a newspaper writer who used the title as a segment in his articles (I don’t remember the writer’s name.) As you might know, I’m not a fan of marathons. I think that it inconveniences too many people for a sport that is designed to boost people’s egos, but, at the heart of it, […]

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This Sunday, November 2nd, Berkley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and now Opus, is ending the Sunday only strip dedicated to the penguin. But you wouldn’t know it from the Chicago newspaper that carries Opus, because it has been missing from the paper, with no notice for at least the past 2 Sundays. If […]

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