Some of you already know that my pal Jeff Green and I co-wrote a post-apocalyptic workplace situation comedy called “Mankind’s Last Hope,” and that this sitcom is being staged in the SF Bay Area for two weekends starting October 26th. … Read on Macduff...
Yaaaar, this be an amusing slice of streaming vid
I thought I was completely burned out on the whole Talk Like a Pirate Day thing, and then I bumped into this lovely gem, which is worth playing just for the music:
… Read on Macduff...
I’ll admit it
I ate a chocolate whopper today. A cookie that was so chocolatey that
in the molecular space where there’s usually air
or maybe some kind of eerie vacuum
with a faint ringing tone
there was no air or vacuum. There … Read on Macduff...
Am I the only one
who’s been worried about whether, in this post-9/11 world, what with the war, and the economy, and health care, and the general state of things, the cable news channels still had it in them to babble on and on (and … Read on Macduff...
Sweet Caroline — Jonathan Coulton cover
Caught the Coulton show in SF Friday night with xian and so-called Bill. Excellent fun. The highlight for me was a swank encore cover of Sweet Caroline. Here’s some footage of said cover from the LA show, which I … Read on Macduff...
My latest million-dollar-idea
A mash-up of the brilliant Parliament Funkadelic with the soaring solo work of Art Garfunkel:
Parliament Garfunkadelic.
The greatest generation strikes back
My 7-year-old just offered this interesting observation (which I reproduce here with apologies to my 81-year-old readers): “Death is OK. It’s OK if you die of old age. Dying at 80 just means that God thinks you’ve had enough time.” … Read on Macduff...
To Raleigh’s and back
I spend so much time with my own tribe nowadays. You just get used to it, being around your own tribe.
So it was a good, healthy shock to the system to go inside Raleigh’s today in Berkeley and find … Read on Macduff...
My Several-Word Review of Super Bad
I tried to find the one word. I considered: “Wow.” “Exhausting.” “Epic.” Maybe “lovely” would have done the trick. Because it was a lovely movie, only slightly marred by the fact that the 20-something lady in the seat immediately to … Read on Macduff...
An Interview with Matt Wagner, Part Two
Photo credit: Greg Preston.
Welcome to the second half of this two-part interview with Matt Wagner, award-winning comic book writer and illustrator, and creator of Mage and Grendel. If you haven’t already read the first part of this interview, … Read on Macduff...