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21.11.2024
This is a nice companion piece to that article and videos I had here last week about Susan Boyle. You may recall from one of the videos I posted that in her original performance on Britain’s Got...
We interrupt this website for a bit of folderol. But I've gotten away from such things for far too long, and as I noted the other week, I want to get back to at least some of it, to a degree....
20.11.2024
We're going to turn this morning's posting over to 60 Minutes from Sunday, and one of their most-blistering openings I've ever seen from them, over the course of just one minute
If you didn't seen The Daily Show last night when Jon Stewart has his Monday hosting, the Main Story about about the Democrats' response to Trump's plans now that he's been elected. Stewart is...
19.11.2024
As I wrote on Facebook, I had a totally bizarre experience. I posted a description of my article today about the MAGOP War on Education...and got a note from Facebook that it had been removed...
A point of personal privilege, courtesy of my longtime friend Steve Fiffer who lives back in Chicago (okay, Evanston, to be accurate) with his wife Sharon. I've mentioned Steve in the past, for...
Among the many of the MAGOP’s greatest bugaboos, I've long thought that its "war on education" may well be at the top of the list. Hard to imagine, I know, given how so much the base of the...
18.11.2024
From the archives. This week's contestant is Sarah Hopkins from Scarsdale, New York. I actually got both the hidden song and composer style on this one, which surprised me. The hidden song...
For last week's Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild wrote that “Laughter is the main course for many of Phil & David's favorite episodes." as they presented excerpts from...
17.11.2024
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestants are Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford, two of the three journalist hosts of “Vibe...
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is Norm Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., As Al writes, “The nightmare we all feared came...
16.11.2024
This is a wonderful, moving video on several related levels. It comes from the Season Finale of Britain’s Got Talent in 2023. And for the finale, as part of the entertainment, they had the...
When I saw that Trump had nominated Robert Kennedy, Jr. to be Health and Human Services Secretary, my first reaction was to literally laugh. Honest. It was just one of those immediate, reflexive...
15.11.2024
Back in 1997, Larry Gelbart wrote a very good movie for HBO, Weapons of Mass Distraction. It was basically about how reality has gotten so over-the-top outlandish -- seen through a personal battle...
If you missed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, it will not shock you to learn that the Main Story was about the presidential election. And much as I dislike immediate analysis of...
14.11.2024
For the “Mystery Guest” segment on What’s My Line?” the contestant is Rosalind Russell. In her long career, she had four Oscar nominations, received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian...
On Sunday, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the paper’s editorial board from publishing its endorsement of Kamala Harris, causing a mass of...
13.11.2024
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show last night, his Main Story was on...oh, you know. This was his first broadcast since the election, and his report is (not...
Since the election, I've read a lot of concern about how likely it is that "JD Vance" will become president, as Trump's dementia worsens. And if so, how much smart and more manipulative he is than...
12.11.2024
Since I've started to get emails sent out to members of the Writers Guild (and most craft guilds) for screenings of certain movies from the past year, that means that Awards Season is upon us. And...
As I've noted, back in July, I posted an episode of Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! with guest contestant J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, who’s a chef, New York Times food columnist, and a James Beard...
11.11.2024
Hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild write that “Laughter is the main course for many of Phil & David's favorite episodes. Here's Part One of some of their greatest conversations yet with some...
Live from Minneapolis, on this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Minnesota-native Nate Berkus. Her conversation with...
Robert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. Elisberg is a two-time recipient of the Lucille...
10.11.2024
I had a bunch of podcasts to choose from for embedding today -- but most were (not surprisingly) of the "Analysis of the election and what went wrong" genre, which as I said the other day is not...
We have a new one this week. The contestant is Kate Kreger of Geneseo, New York. I was pretty sure that I had the hidden song – but I was wrong, it was something else that I like a lot,...
09.11.2024
This episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had more meaning when it originally aired on Sunday. For those who missed it, however, it still has a good deal of substance. That's...
08.11.2024
This is a really lovely, well-done video by a guy – beautifully written and presented -- who had one dog and everything was wonderful, and looks at why he then inexplicably decided to get a second...
The least interesting political stories for me are those which explain the reason Democrats, in this case, (or any party, in any election) didn’t win. The thing is – and I feel very...
There was a range of ways I'd been thinking about for how to begin today’s article, looking back at Tuesday's presidential election. Because there were so many options, I decided to go with them...
07.11.2024
It's near midnight in California, which makes it 3 PM in the east, and so most vote counting has finished down in many states for the night. And so, it’s too early to know what the final results...
Since it's Election Night, and I suspect most people will be focused on television and the news results, I figure it's best to just provide a brief respite when someone might need a break. So, here...
I thought that tonight just deserved a song to maybe calm the turbulent beast, and thought through a range of titles. Not fit perfectly, but it's hard to go wrong with John Prine, even it's not...
I figured I'd end the presidential race with a few, short final day stories on the campaign trail. Short, but telling about the the two campaigns. The first is that in her last rallies -- the final...
05.11.2024
What has become a nerve-wracking guessing game every four years during a presidential campaign is what will be the October Surprise? Will it hurt one's own candidate or the other side? How...
This is a joyous find. On The Dean Martin Show , one of the series’ regulars was Kay Medford. She was a wonderful actress with a long career on stage and in film, appearing on Broadway in such...
04.11.2024
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Eric Idle of Monty Python. His conversation with host Peter Sagal is fun...
Today's Naked Lunch episode is a repeat, but a reasonably timely one, since the guest is the late night host who Trump seems most bothered by, and in getting upset keeps providing monologue...
I've written in the past about my friend Treva Silverman (also known as The Lovely Treva) who was not only the first female writer hired for the staff of legendary TV series The Mary Tyler Moore...
03.11.2024