Something Old, Nothing New

Here's a funny essay on continuity in TV shows and the perils of trying to maintain continuity when shows cross over with each other; u...

Having said mean things about Anthony Trollope in two previous posts, I may have given the impression that I don't like his work. But a...

I've been watching the new DVD of Berlioz's Les Troyens (The Trojans) , from a Paris production conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. I...

Another thing you can get away with on a blog is saying that something will happen, which does not subsequently happen. This could never ha...

...For the lack of new posts; sometimes the site wasn't operational, and sometimes I wasn't operational. New stuff (about old stuff...

Robert Harris, the movie restoration expert, has a new interview with George Feltenstein of Warner Home Video, which now owns approximately...

Have you ever noticed that many TV critics are really bad at evaluating sitcoms? I'm not just talking about problems with recognizing a...

Cartoon Brew offers some screenshots from the upcoming Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, including title cards from several cartoons...

It seems like every year Opera News has an article or an editorial on opera singers singing "popular" music. The current issue ...

There's this baseball game coming on tonight -- you might have heard of it -- involving these two American League teams with very high p...

What are good songs to listen to when you're in a bad mood and want to be confirmed in your conviction that life sucks (as opposed to th...

One more note about the Tom and Jerry DVD set I wrote about below: turns out that three of the cartoons in the set are in cut versions that ...

Can't believe I forgot to mention P.G. Wodehouse's birthday yesterday. On that occasion, Outer Life reviewed Wodehouse's worst...

I wish I were a bigger fan of Tom and Jerry. Watching the new DVD Collection of 40 of their '40s and '50s cartoons, I found what I...

Are there great artists whose work you admire, but whose personalities turn you off so much that you can't enjoy their work? Now, when ...

I haven't written an "obscure musicals" post in a while, but while I'm working on that, here's a link to a great essay...

I hope someday the cartoonist who bills himself as "Merlin Jones" will expand his multi-part The Rise and Fall of Disney Animation...

I haven't read much of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, but even so, I know he's gotten a really bad rap. The supposed Bulwer-Lytton homepage ...

You've probably seen this before, but one of my favorite web games, and one of the few semi-early Internet staples to survive all these ...

Here's an excellent interview with Chris Lewis, son of Jerry Lewis, who produced the DVD editions of a bunch of Lewis's movies, to ...