Year: 2007

Dog Rat Speaks On Shokus Internet Radio

I did what I promised myself I wouldn’t do, and I called in to “Stu’s Show” on Shokus Internet Radio to talk to Monte Schulz and Mark Evanier about the David Michaelis biography, Schulz and Peanuts. To my amazement I think I didn’t completely blow it, but that’s only because of the topic and the fact I’ve already had some contact with these fine gentlemen.

Shokus Internet Radio

I will not be posting an audio excerpt from the show until it’s no longer being played on Shokus Internet Radio. The good news is, you have plenty of opportunities to hear it between now and next Tuesday. It will be repeated every evening at 7 PM ET.

I really want you to listen to the entire program, so I won’t even tell you where in it I make my appearance. In fact, I was going to hang up after Monte answered my question, but I was glued to the phone and as a result was able to sneak in an extra comment. Even after that, I was so engrossed in what I heard I again forgot to hang up for a little while!

To my embarrassment, I didn’t say thank you! Many thanks go to Stu Shostak, Mark Evanier, and Monte Schulz.

“Look, Iraq Iran is dangerous”

George Bush, Idiot-In-Chief

Bush isn’t even the boy who cried wolf, because unlike the children’s story it turns out there’s no wolf.

Bush said the new conclusion — contradicting earlier U.S. assessments — would not prompt him to take off the table the possibility of pre-emptive military action against Iran.

“Look, Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

Bush was wrong about stem cells, tax cuts for the rich, Iraq, Terry Schiavo, and Social Security. So I’m sure as heck not going to start thinking he’s got it right this time.

New York Seating

When I was in New York recently, at The Times Center to see Stephen Colbert, I realized that the auditorium, which seats 370, is the size I’ve always imagined the stage to be when The Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Ed Sullivan Theater, now home to The Late Show with David Letterman (now in re-runs during the writers’ strike), supposedly holds 400, but every time I see a view of it the place looks a lot smaller than that, as seen in this picture.

David Letterman

There’s something else I’d like to point out about this photo, but I won’t say yet what that is. When the time comes I will tell you.