Jan 20 2009
While the current Obama/Spider-Man buzz making the rounds is Marvel’s (supposedly pretty ham-handed) “guest appearance” by Obama in a current Spider-Man issue, here’s something a bit more subtle that recently caught my eye. Last Sunday’s Parade Magazine newspaper insert contained a contained a letter/essay from Obama to his children entitled “What I Want for You …
Jan 15 2009
It’s been a grim week or so: first Ron Asheton, now Ricardo Montalban. As slashdot remarked, “The voice of Rich Corinthian Leather is silenced, but we still have the memories.”
Jan 14 2009
One of the items we received for Christmas this year was a subscription to Vanity Fair magazine. Other than knowing the name of the publication, I didn’t really know much about it before now. Having now received and read two or three issues, I can say two things: it’s a good magazine, and it’s a …
Jan 08 2009
When I read last night that Ron “Rock Action” Asheton was dead, my first thought was to crank “Down on the Street” or “TV Eye” really, really loud… but, my second thought was that it was 10:30 at night and since both my wife and daughter were asleep with bad respitory infections, that’d be a …
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