Natalie was fine today. Bored with the flu. Bored with sitting on the sofa. Bored with drawing cats. Bored. Dead bored. She’s so over the flu – literally, as well Since she had no fever, we went to her piano recital, with the understanding the instructor would wipe the keyboard after she was done. [...]

Nope. Bleatwise, it ain’t happening.
Lest you think I’m thumb-twiddling, I did two videos today, two radio interviews, one interview with some guy named “Steve King,” and then I had to work the transcript into a 32 inch story with a seven-inch sidebar. Apparently he’s written some books. He’s coming to town at the behest [...]

Working on some new ideas; forgive occasional ugliness. Should be fixed by Monday, after which this post will vanish.

I have about 487534 hours of TV and movies queued up here and there, and what do I watch? The Office. The original Office. As a perfectly self-contained piece of TV – 13 episodes, no more – it’s unmatched. You could write a thesis on the brief opening credits, from the carousel futility of the [...]

Another good one. What’s happening to this series? Where’s the krep? The cheese? The tiresome 30s hackwork?
Meet Vera, Nightmare Dame. Go HERE.

 
I’d tell you about my memory of the Moon landing – sitting breathless in front of the TV, not sure why the grown-ups seemed so apprehensive, certain it would end well because this was NASA and we were Americans and this was the very future I’d been guaranteed as long as I could remember  – [...]

Of course it’s a gasoline ad; why else would you have an old lady stabbing a watermelon while a man slumbered under a tree and feral kids came running?

Dude doesn’t know if he’s coming or going. No, strike that: he does. Always. Go HERE.

Simple premise to this idea: speculate on what the illustration’s selling. Sometimes it’s easy; sometimes not. This week: easy. OR NOT?

Really! These movies are OFF LIMITS! HOT STUFF! For 1935, anyway. Click HERE, then come back for comments if you like.