It’s possible that there’s a site someplace collecting all the web tributes to George Carlin out there, but I ain’t gonna be the one. It would take years. I haven’t seen a website in the last week, political or philosophical, self-obsessed or link-whorey, preteen or geezer, that didn’t have something to say about his dying [...]

There are a million obituaries and recollections of George Carlin going around today, all of them heartfelt and richly deserved. He was a hell of a thinker, and a gleeful optimist who covered his idealism under a thickly-applied layer of murk. He was incredibly prolific, as cunning a lunguist as you’ll ever see on a [...]

In Newburgh, New York, a man broke into a woman’s house, cut a hole in her couch, and hid there until she came home and sat on the couch, discovering him. Charges are pending. After her husband died of prostate cancer, Rosie Swale-Pope, 61, decided she wanted to run around the world. She’s almost done, [...]

I never promised I wouldn’t overdo it with Match Game news, and two releases in one week is a good start. Besides, the full cast seems to be set, at least for the moment. Sarah Silverman & Norm Macdonald are anchoring the panel, which has apparently been set to include Niecy Nash, Scott Thompson, Rashida [...]

I’ve taken the last few years to celebrating Bloomsday, though this year I’ve been wake-to-drop crazy this week, and it flew past me like an arrow aimed elsewhere. Tonight I’ll celebrate it at Dempsey’s, but right now, I present this excellently funny video of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett at the Pitch’n’Putt (beware, there’s a [...]

Goodbye Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, hello… Sarah Silverman and Norm Macdonald. Still no host or anyone else on the panel, but still, they needed to have those two chairs filled early on, so I’m glad they’ve at least made a decision. What this says about the tone of the show bothers me a [...]