I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at […]
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Fondly remembering Roger Ebert… nerdy kid in search of friends, childhood zine editor
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged 1983, another famous person has died, atheism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bob and Ray, Buck Coulson, cancer, Death, Don Knotts, famous people who published zines, fandom, Gene Siskel, Harlan Ellison, Harvey Kurtzman, Humanism, Joey Ramone, Juanita Coulson, Kate Moss, Kurt Vonnegut, legacies, Lenny Bruce, life after death, memes, MidWestCon, Mort Sahl, on facing death, people who we know from television, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, science fiction, self-publishing, Sex Pistols, so it goes, Stan Freberg, Star Wars, Stymie, Xero, Yandro, zine pioneers, zines 16 Comments
Obama forcefully tears apart the bewildered shell of Mitt Romney in third and final debate on foreign policy
People came away from the last presidential debate not talking about Romney’s commanding presence, but his gaffs. What had people talking the next day, as they stood around the coffee pot at work, wasn’t a clever zinger that the successful dismantler of companies had made about Obama’s hatred of capitalism, but Romney’s nonsensical and offensive […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1920s, 1980s, Afghanistan, al Queda, binders full of women, Cold War, debates, foreign policy, horses and bayonets, Iraq, Obama, Presidential politics, Romnesia, Romney, Russia 14 Comments