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Oh, no. Those dinosaur books with the brilliant illustrator Mark Teague have been a mainstay through both my trips through parenthood.

If you own a bar or other business that puts up flyers, consider posting something like this

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

I guess the paint is peeling off the grass, too.

Tomorrow (Saturday) morning, we'll have a table at the Sierra Madre Community Yard Sale, 8a to 1:30p here at Memorial Park, 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. www.sierramadreca.gov/life-wellness/… This is a thread of *some* of my stuff that needs a new home.

Some people worked in an era of television. He *was* an era of television. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/a...

There's a case to be made that nobody has had more influence on the modern era of the television medium than James Burrows. His mastery of the half-hour comedy especially is unmatched & always will be. A master of what he did and incredibly beloved. RIP to a great 💚 people.com/james-burrow...

James Burrows was not a giant in sitcom directing. He was THE giant. The primary director of Cheers and Taxi. The only director (I believe) of Will & Grace. The director whose pilots for Friends, Third Rock, Frasier, and Big Bang Theory got them on the air. The king. RIP. people.com/james-burrow...

The best to ever do it.

We've lost a legend: James Burrows, one of the greatest sitcom directors in TV history, has passed away at the age of 85, per People magazine.

Great directors can either help create chemistry or recognize when it’s happening and do everything they can to keep the reaction going. James Burrows did both. A true master of television.

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Satirical opening to an article in Computer Careers Magazine, from October, 1980.

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Hats off to friend and funnyman, Tom Dreesen. Opened for Sinatra for ages. No one could out-talk Tom. He probably died two weeks ago but his brilliant ass kept telling stories 'til today. Love you forever.

Name a TV show you’re positive no one else remembers but you I saw this in syndication on an Indy channel right after getting home from grade school. Werewolf D.J. And a Frankenstein monster prop, just a prop. Vincent Price was the cameo host introducing the episodes.

RIP Tom Dreesen. I met him several times over the years and it was always a pleasure chatting with him. I feel confident in saying he would like you to remember that he was Frank Sinatra's opening act.

I was just thinking how many of the assigned readings in school had macabre elements -- The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, As I Lay Dying... It's like they knew they could blow our little minds - and hook us on literature - with something to make us go ew ew ew in a delighted/scandalized way.

The only acceptable use of Claude

#RIP Tom Dreesen Back in my Ventura Boulevard days, we used to go for Italian around the corner from his Sherman Oaks home, though I'm not sure how much he actually ate because he had one story after another from a hell of a life.

Randomly remembered buying a Jack Kerouac book in a book store well over 20 years ago and this older guy scoffed and said “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” I said “Don’t quote Capote at me!” and he stormed off in a huff. Probably one of the coolest/dorkiest interactions I’ve had.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

This is in sync with my viewpoint and philosophy as a hobby writer/artist. others have posted similar expressions, but this best articulates my mindset.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Rest in peace, Oliver 💔

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

Sir Ian McKellen.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

The Knicks finally figured out how to do the right thing.

These days a mere click gets you hundreds of folks opining on the latest film, and that’s not a bad thing. But when I was a kid there was one person on each TV channel who talked about movies and pop culture for a brief segment. Gene Shalit was the goofiest of that ilk. God bless him. Rest In Peace.

Watched and enjoyed Ronnie Schell on many shows when I was a kid, Good Morning World, Gomer Pyle, etc. And he was a funny standup comedian, too. One of those comedy folks I saw at an impressionable age and thought, “I want to do that.” Rest In Peace.

#RIP Gene Shalit Retired and living in Massachusetts, he used to email me observations, jokes, trivia and whatnot. Often, he made a point to mention his Daily Illini roots. Fun fact: He was born almost a month before Queen Elizabeth.

Promotional photo for the weirdest post-noise art project you've ever heard, they released one exceptional EP and then break up. She becomes a famous sculptor and he goes crazy investing in crypto.

1988. David Hockney recreates "Pearblossom Highway" with Huell Howser www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGK9gu…

Rex Reed to a degree, Siskel and Ebert obviously, but in my born-in-1971 perspective it was this guy, his hair and mustache and cigar, which first conveyed 'film critic' to me, and in a good way too. (Also was a pretty good host of _Mystery!_ for a while!)

He was obsessed (correctly) I’m absolutely heartbroken

Robert E. Howard created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. He died by suicide on June 11, 1936, in Cross Plains, Texas. He was 30 years old.

Before Siskel and Ebert took to the airwaves, Gene Shalit was already there, goofy puns and all, guiding us through the world of New Hollywood movies and blockbusters of the 70s. He was later overshadowed by S&E and others, but was always there, being his quirky, lovable self. One of a kind. RIP

Damn, we lost another great one. Rest In Peace, James Blood Ulmer. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...

Jane Yolen was an absolutely lovely human and also an almost absurdly talented writer. It's wonderful when both things are wrapped up in the same person. I considered her a friend and a colleague, and I will miss her. Condolences to the each of the many of us who knew her. Her memory is a blessing.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Statement from The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 on Martin Scorsese’s recent promotion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) The Art Directors Guild represents storyboard and concept artists in live-action film, series, and commercials

Graphic novels turn kids into lifelong readers. They challenge readers, transform reluctant readers into readers, they bring joy. They boost vocabulary, increase reading comprehension for brains that take in information differently. They tell a story. Graphic novels are real reading, real books ✨📚😊

RIP to an absolute legend, Stacey King. I hope Stacey is remembered as a man of the people. He would stay for 45 minutes to an hour after games every night for 20 years in order to take pictures and meet Bulls fans.

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