My 27th wedding anniversary was yesterday and my wife and I went to the movies, as is our habit. Our batting average has been rather good un...

As a reporter, you may not get much respect or much pay, but you can have some fun. In the late 1990s I wrote for a local monthly publicatio...

Several years ago I had the opportunity of running the Too Much Coffee Man comic strip in one of our publications and I wish I had the budge...

Sorry about taking a few days off, but it’s been the holidays. I saw King Kong recently and have to first admit that I was predisposed to li...

With the record-setting cold snap, this Christmas season will be long remembered – at least as long as it takes us to finish paying our heat...

I was thinking the other day of just how many classic cartoons ARE NOT on DVD, except for those shorts that have fallen into the public doma...

I just received Richard Fleischer’s memoir about his father Max and devoured it over a two-day period. I’m going to do a more in depth revie...

From 1982 to 1987 I was the afternoon drive-time talk show host over what was then the only all-talk station in our market. I always loved r...

I'm currently completing a book that collects my non-Fleischer animation writings and presents them in a context to explain what happene...

Here's a story I wrote for this week's papers. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles proved that one can never tell what the next pop cul...

Sorry for not posting every day, folks. I was reminded of this by my buddy Steve "I Write My Blog Every Day" Bissette. I hang my h...

Almost every week I run a DVD column in our 'papers and I thought to stir up some comment I'd share some on this blog. The most daun...

I get a lot of goofy press releases every day, but the following one takes the cake. Please read on: Local radio show host and Pastor, Tom C...

Your childhood does mark you. I loved Popeye as a kid and I wound up being an animation nut. So much so that I edited and publoished two mag...

What to write about, what to write about... I suppose I should do the time-honored post that explains the real reasons behind yet another bl...

Okay...why another blog? Well, people might say that I have plenty of opportunity of expressing myself since I am the managing editor for fo...