“So light they almost fly,” says the caption associated with this piece of mid-1900’s advertising art. EphemeraNow.com has many more. I love ad art, the older the better, having been…
Via the Geisha asobi blog: check out this link. Scroll down to the cat costume labeled “Young lady blouse”. The expression seems to say: “You’re going to post these pictures…
(Caution: this blog entry not suitable for people frightened by the word “lard”) Stomach starts to grumble. Realize that there’s a roll of homemade five-egg pasta dough in the fridge,…
I really do love Samuel Pepys. Today’s entry in his journal suggests one of the reasons why. Here he gets involved with a poor schnook named Banes who, while drunk,…
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"This weekend, Europe switches to Daylight Saving Time, and all the clocks move forward an hour."
They do? Cripes, where does the time go? (The answer to that question is probably a novel. Don’t get me started.) But this shows you what my world is like…
“Scholastic Does About-Face on New Potter; Won’t Sell Them Direct” The prospect of dealing with scores of angry booksellers has helped persuade Scholastic not to presell Harry Potter and the…
if we were in NY at the time (and we might be, due to business travel. This is as much a note to me as to any of you who…
From today’s Irish Times: “The unusually dry spell has left much of the country in near-drought conditions, according to Met Eireann. Many parts of the country have enjoyed at least…
Meaning that it’s still really nice out. Temperature’s about 60 F at the moment; the sky is cloudless. Oh, a little haze near the horizon, but nothing serious. And it’s…
Dave Barry on helping write jokes for Steve Martin at the Oscars.
Today’s “Saturday Science” article from NASA talks about astrophotography on the ISS, some intelligent tinkering, and noseprints on the windows. There’s photography of Earth, too: aurorae and city pictures (like…
If you haven’t come across this web page in your travels, you should take a look at it. Dave Mackey is building a filmography of Warner Bros. cartoons there, including…
Cynthia Armistead writes to say that Out Of Ambit is being syndicated on LiveJournal at / as http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=outofambit. Welcome, guys!
The things you find while cruising other people’s blogs…. I’d completely forgotten about this wonderful miniseries by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones. Now I have to find where the heck…
Possibly a good moment to have another look at this. (NB: not updated since 1999, apparently.)
I almost forgot… The one thing I’m going to stay up for: Peter O’Toole’s acceptance of his special Oscar. That should be worth seeing. Meanwhile, I’ve shifted my two buckets…
I have this awful feeling that we may be in the middle of it. We’ve had this happen before. Often enough, at least in this part of the country, we…
Philip Morris loses a $10 billion verdict. …But don’t worry, guys; I’m sure the damages will be “light.” If you gather that I think smoking is suicide — commercially-assisted suicide…
Time for the Saturday-morning cartoon-time sugar rush. (Boy, what would I have thought when I was eight, if someone had told me I would live to see a day when…
I was browsing through Major Fun’s weblog a day or so ago and found this (scroll down to the second entry). At the moment it seems like a good thing…
“A Wizard Alone” has been chosen for inclusion on the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” list for 2003. This is so neat in a number of…
According to an e-mail from my editor’s office at Warner, the book has just gone into its third printing. Which delights me, and the only thing that leaves me bemused…
Then let’s play “Nominate your Fantasy Security Council!” I’m not sure about the speculation about the Irish, though (and they’d probably have to disqualify themselves anyway, at the moment, since…
but the excellent AccordionGuy beat me to it. The last line keeps coming back to me: “Our business now is north.” After endless spleen, spite and bombast from every side,…