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The Colbert War Machine

Tonight is the first installment of Stephen Colbert’s visit with the troops in Baghdad. Gen. Ray Odierno, under a direct order given by his Commander in Chief, gave Stephen a buzzcut! Don’t miss it!

I love Colbert, but I’m enough of a realistic/cynic to suspect the timing of his visit to Iraq isn’t coincidentally following Conan O’Brien’s first week on his new shift. And this week’s issue of Newsweek features Colbert as guest editor. It’s out now, but our copy (I’ve subscribed to Newsweek for 25 years) didn’t arrive in today’s mail.

Colbert edits Newsweek

Tokyo Game Action Auction

Greetings from the Dunkin’ Donuts in Winchendon, MA, where around the corner is the end of a dream. Tokyo Game Action was Andy McGuire’s dream of turning a vacant bowling alley into a video arcade that was so good it would be a destination for serious gamers — and for Eric it was.

Tokyo Game Action

Nearly six hours after the auction began to liquidate all assets, it’s still going. I’ll post more about this later from home.

Colbert Accomplishes Mission in Iraq

Stephen Colbert in flight suit

Stephen Colbert’s face has been sitting on the blog’s header for a reason. Next week the shows he recorded in Iraq will be aired. And next week’s issue of Newsweek is guest-edited by Colbert. (Note: the comments that are currently on the page at that link look like mine would if I weren’t so good about killing spam.)

Forty years ago, and for years more after that, I admired Charles Schulz and Stan Lee more than anybody else. My new idols are Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.

Correction: Colbert arrived in Baghdad yesterday. There will be four shows, each aired the day it is produced as they are in NYC.

The shirt off of Sparky’s back?

An original Charles Schulz drawing on a sweatshirt for $9500? At first glance the drawing appears to be genuine.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/clt/1205071554.html

Original Schulz sweatshirt?

This a rather unique piece of artwork. It was created by Charles Schulz at a private Beethoven birthday party held in the late 60s at his Coffey [sic] Lane residence in Sebastopol, Ca.
Pictures of Beethoven and Schroder [sic] were drawn on two white sweatshirts.
Currently, one of the sweatshirts is owned by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. The other, in excellent condition and signed by Charles Schulz, is being offered for purchase. Serious buyers only, please.

I wonder why this is being offered on Craigslist, rather than eBay?