By Mark | August 21, 2016
There’s a ton that I want to write about tonight, but I just can’t do it. I’m sorry. I just need to watch a Bill Murray movie and forget the world for a while… If you’d like to join me, I’ll be starting St. Vincent on Netflix at 10:00 PM. [If you don’t have Netflix, […]
By Mark | January 14, 2014
This evening, while researching something completely unrelated, I discovered an interesting little fact about filmmaker Christopher Guest that I wanted to share. A decade before starring in This Is Spinal Tap, and setting in motion a chain of events that would make him the mockumentary auteur he is today, he starred opposite Charles Bronson in […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged 1974, acting, actors playing cops, Baron Haden-Guest, barons, casting, CBS, Charles Bronson, Christopher Guest, Columbo, Death Wish, England, House of Lords, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jean Pauline Hindes, mockumentary, National Lampoon, National Lampoon Radio Hour, peerage, police, revenge porn, Spinal Tap, The Hot Rock, United Nations |
By Mark | February 7, 2012
A few days ago, I posted video here of Bill Murray, on the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. I have no way of knowing how many people took my advice and watched the clip, which was absolutely brilliant, but it only garnered one comment. (Someone, making the case that he was still […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged American culture, anxiety, black comedy, Bobcat Goldthwait, celebrity culture, comedy, depression, Disney, Falling Down, FDR American Badass, Joel Murray, Juno, Late Night with David Letterman, Mark, mental health, OCD, Police Academy, pre-war jazz and blues, reality television, Scrooged, Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Tara Lynn Barr, the cesspool that is American culture, the Taliban should win, World's Greatest Dad |
By Mark | February 5, 2012
The other day, I heard someone mention that David Letterman was celebrating his 30th anniversary on television, and I made a note to myself to see if I could find the first episode of Late Night online. Well, I just did, and wanted to pass along a few clips. While Letterman was certainly good, if […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Media, Pop Culture | Also tagged 1982, Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Brother Theodore, commedy, David Letterman, Dick Cavett, Frank Zappa, Gore Vidal, great interviews, Kurt Vonnegut, Late Night with David Letterman, talk shows, television |
The St. Petersburg Times is reporting today that a Tampa area Tea Party group calling itself the Tampa 912 Project is offering a summer camp for kids in July. Here’s a clip from the article: …The organization, which falls under the tea party umbrella, hopes to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that […]
Posted in Education | Also tagged 9/12, activities for kids, America is good, anti-government, birther, blind patriotism, charter school, Education, gold, guerilla drive-in, Jeff Lukens, jingoism, Karen Jaroch, kid, Meatballs, separation of church and state, summer camp, Tampa Liberty School, tea party, the threat of Socialism |