On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it.
I need it.
As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer.
My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 2, 2025
Trump says he’s “on it.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/politics/trump-dilbert-scott-adams-cancer
Here’s Scott today, talking about his condition and situation.
On Sunday, Denro and I were at the Albany Comic Con. It’s a small, one-day show that’s devoted to comic books, which is a rarity these days. I bought this groovy FLAME ON! logo from comic book letterer Janice Chiang. It would make a good tattoo, not that I’d ever have any interest in getting one.
That’s all I have at the moment. I’ll think of something else to Prattle about later.
Oh, wait. There is one more thing. Something from a few days ago that returns every time I reset it on the CR-V. I suppose I should get an estimate on a new catalytic converter.
With Warner Bros. up for sale, will Disney make a grab to own Superman?
The Baby Boom generation created a huge market for kid related material in the late 50s and early 60s. There were plenty of cartoons, both old and new, on TV. Most of the Saturday morning cartoons shown on network TV came from California.
Greater New York was home not only to newspaper cartoonists and comic book artists, but animators. Quite a few of the syndicated cartoons that kids watched after school were produced in New York.
Joe Oriolo, a former Fleischer/Famous Studios animator, was behind several popular syndicated TV cartoon series. Looking at these examples now, I admire the industry veterans of theatrical cartoons who succeeded within the limitations of TV animation.
Felix the Cat
The Mighty Hercules
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Comic book artist Joe Staton gets recognition, and presumably financial compensation, for co-creating Guy Gardner, the latest incarnation of Green Lantern. In the Superman movie he’s played by Nathan Fillion.
It started with me sending Denro this picture of an album I saw on display at Newbury Comics. The late and very great Joe Sinnott, Bing’s #1 fan, would have been pleased to see a new Crosby record in 2025.
The topic quickly switched to something else from long ago, when Denro replied that he had just purchased a new record he spotted at a Barnes & Noble.
It’s a soundtrack of It’s a Wonderful Life that I heretofore didn’t know existed. Denro said the album was originally released as a CD that is no longer available.
https://www.kritzerland.com/wonderful_life.htm
The CD information at that link includes this warning…
Do not be fooled by any other CDs that purport to be the original soundtrack for this film – they are all bootlegs and contain dialogue, sound effects and music right off the film itself. This is the first release of the real deal.
… a warning that is easily confirmed.
The album Denro bought is also available as a new CD release.
https://lalalandrecords.com/its-a-wonderful-life-75th-anniversary-remastered-limited-edition/
The soundtrack is on Amazon as an MP3 for $9, so I bought that. I would have sprung for a CD copy, but the liner notes are available on the Kritzerland page.
This music cue is called “Love Sequence”. It reminds me of the music that Tiomkin composed for Capra’s Lost Horizon, produced ten years before It’s a Wonderful Life.
My favorite aspect of It’s a Wonderful Life is the contrast that’s drawn between Mary and Violet, who I see as the most interesting character in the movie. It’s easy to infer what Violet originally had in mind for her evening’s fun, before her attempt at seducing George, and it’s certainly intended for mature audiences. “We’ll wait for you, baby.”
