November 11, 2009
VETERANS DAY
Thank you all.
Comments(1)October 12, 2009
Irresponsibility Of Today’s Left
Many years ago, when I started my career in L.A. as a television and film writer, I was under contract to a small production company headed by Michael Jaffee.
Michael was young, tasteful, talented and possessed a strong social conscience. He was the producer of the beautiful TV movie, A Woman Called Moses, starring Cicely Tyson, about the valiant abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, and is currently one of the producers of The Informant, starring Matt Damon.
February 20, 2009
A Favorite Film
There are three — no, four people I wanted to be when I was a kid: Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Ted Williams and Gene Kelly.
Oh, I flirted occasionally with Joe DiMaggio, James Cagney, Steve Van Buren, Johnny Lujack and a few others, but those were my top four.
So, on the occasion of Oscar night, some friends wanted to know what our favorite movie or movies were and I reached into my grab bag of wannabe heroes and thought about movies.
January 3, 2009
No Guilty Pleasures For 2009 — Just Pleasures
Why the hell do some pleasures have to be guilty? And where did that idea come from anyway?
As I see it, there are two parts to a guilty pleasure: The guilt that’s felt for enjoying something and an embarrassment to admit it. That’s because structurally, a guilty pleasure is something your peers think is crap.
People who determine what’s crap are The Elites, defined as those who think they’re smarter and more sophisticated than everyone else, even if they’re not. You’ll find most Elites in the media, academia, HuffPo or in Whole Foods.
September 7, 2008
William A. III
I’ve been reading your negative comments below. It seems you don’t think my humorous pieces are humorous and the rest is, well, your final, general comment was: However, I’d also say that this site is VERY obscure, and – based on the incredibly low caliber of the work done on it (even by right wing blog standards) is so low, that that is unlikely to ever change.
July 25, 2007
Alec Baldwin Called Kim Jong-Il
Just last week, July 18th to be exact, North Korea shut its Yongbyon reactor, according to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, a delightful, caramel colored chihuahua named Bernice. The reactor had been producing weapons-grade plutonium and its closure fulfilled some terms of an agreement with the U.S., South Korea, Russia, China and Japan that was reached on Feb. 13.