Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog

Before taking a hiatus for a road trip, I'm compelled to celebrate Burt Bacharach Day. . . it is, after all, the 20th of the month! Tri...

The studio of Ub Iwerks, the guy who animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons and was certainly the fastest pencil in the west, created s...

First and foremost, there's the Van Beuren Studio. Animation fans say "God bless Amadee J. Van Beuren", who was the personific...

With George Shearing in Berlin, 1989.

The next question: what cartoon producer would be the Walt Disney of cult/psychotronic cartoons? It's tantamount to asking who's the...

The phrase “cult movies” is not meant to describe the entertainment preferences of Heaven's Gate "straight to Saturn" club mem...

Since there are so many truly outstanding animation blogs (my "links" section doesn't even get around to all of them), I have...

Since it isn't possible to attract high ratings or readership with hard-hitting investigative stories about serious issues, right now al...

That early 1970's musical landscape of prog rock and fusion is most difficult to explain to the uninitiated. Neither of the two genres w...

I regret not having an amazing clip of the late great Max Roach , backed by a blend of his one-of-a-kind percussion ensemble M'Boom wit...

"To Max Roach , who brought moments of crystalline clarity and beauty to the deepest improvisational frenzy." Drum Solos - Max Roa...

I absolutely detest having an "R.I.P. blog", since countless truly great individuals - some famous, most only known to their loved...

I'll wager this is the only blog around that features posts on both The Buzzcocks and Peggy Lee in the same week! As a guy who enjoys ...

Barry Bonds is the Lance Armstrong of baseball. Lance Armstrong is the Barry Bonds of cycling. The Tour de France is the buck naked reality ...

Never Mind The Bollocks, here are Manchester's The Buzzcocks, live in 2007. Old is a state of mind - well, at least until you're pus...

The new DVD set of 1933-1938 Popeye cartoons, mastered from the original negatives, receives its official release today. Indeed, this is an ...

We will soil the beautiful Cerrito Speakeasy Theatre with the aforementioned matinee this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. I get asked what our "t...

Boy, is this cartoon in bad taste!

Felix breaks "the third wall" before Bertolt Brecht, before Tex Avery, before Olsen and Johnson, before Ernie Kovacs, in this rema...