Something Old, Nothing New

So Roman Polanski is in the news again. I don't feel like writing a post about that, because, yuck, but here's something I notice ab...

I got a request for this one, though apart from the beginning it doesn't have much you won't see on Hulu (but if you're in Canad...

In my recent Bob Bolling profile , I noted that he tended to change the designs of the characters depending on what kind of story he was doi...

He linked to my old post about P.G. Wodehouse, but even if he hadn't, I'd recommend that you look at Ray Givran's post about the...

North By Northwest is on now (I wonder if the upcoming Blu-Ray release will finally correct the mis-framing that cuts off the full name on ...

This is the 60th anniversary of "Fast and Furry-ous," and while the Chuck Jones site has the early Road Runner/Coyote model sheet ...

I didn't buy the mono super-limited edition Beatles recordings, even though I fully agree with those who say the mono mixes are superior...

This is a Grudge Match™ idea I came up with a few years ago and kind of like: as we all know, Batman's success is based on the fact that...

I don't know why I hadn't seen Roman Scandals , even though I like Eddie Cantor and Busby Berkeley, and Berkeley was at his peak whe...

I haven't done a classical-music post here in a long time, even though (thanks to YouTube) I've been listening to more of it recentl...

There was never a final episode for Animaniacs , so so put together the 99th and last episode, the producers took one leftover cartoon and a...

Well, they still do. John Ford's Wagon Master is coming out on DVD next week. (Or possibly the week after; it seems like some stores m...

Just a note on Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly's "Classic Children's Comics" : the one story credited to Bob Bolling in...

Hugh Martin ( Meet Me In St. Louis, Best Foot Forward, "An Occasional Man") is one of my favorite people in the history of Americ...

One of my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons as a kid was "Hare-Less Wolf," featuring the return of the absent-minded, borderline brain-...

This is an extension of something I wrote elsewhere, but: I've always thought that one of the reasons the mirror routine in Duck Soup i...

I've said in the past on this blog that, much as I love Gilbert and Sullivan, I usually can't bring myself to go to see their works ...

This is another lyric I wrote to see what a musical version of Mann's Dr. Faustus might be like. This song was for Rudi Schwerdtfeger,...

Thanks to Mighty God King for hosting my longest-ever post on why I love the work of Bob Bolling. The post quotes from a 1985 Miami Heral...

By request, here's an uncut version of a season 1 episode. The Hulu/DVD version cuts the sequence with Elvis Costello's "Goon S...