New York City may soon be getting a floating pool in its East River. It will be an innovative floating platform, with the walls of the cross-shaped pool comprised of… Read the rest of the article: NYC to put a floating pool in the East River
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Ruben Bolling Dave Hill totally crushed guitar renditions of the Canadian and American national anthems before an Anaheim Ducks vs. Toronto Maple Leafs NHL game at the Honda Center in Anaheim on… Read the rest of the article: "I rule": Comedian and musician Dave Hill rocks Anaheim arena, shredding Canadian and American national anthems
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Ruben Bolling Famed cartoonist Ramona Fradon is retiring at the age of 97, according to a January 3 announcement from her comic art dealer Catskill Comics. After an extremely long run in… Read the rest of the article: Aquaman, Metamorpho, and Brenda Starr cartoonist Ramona Fradon retires
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Ruben Bolling When Mickey Mouse, along with thousands of other pieces of intellectual property, lapsed into the public domain on January 1, 2024, only the 1928 iteration of the property had its… Read the rest of the article: Mickey Mouse's red shorts have entered the public domain
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Ruben Bolling From Mark Evanier's very fine blog News from ME: In 1962, Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, tried to produce a Marx Brothers television show. The fact that… Read the rest of the article: A 1962 attempt at a Claymation Marx Brothers TV show
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Ruben Bolling đ Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Meet Tom the Dancing Bug's newest character: Mickey Mouse!
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Ruben Bolling đ Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: It's God-Man vs. latex rubber
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Ruben Bolling đ Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Can Lucky Ducky find a home?
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Ruben Bolling Here is a video of singer Janis Ian performing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967, at the age of 16. She's singing her controversial hit that she wrote… Read the rest of the article: Watch singer Janis Ian, at sixteen, the day she says Bill Cosby blackballed her from TV: "probably a lesbian"
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Ruben Bolling Comedian Gary Gulman's comedy special "Born on Third Base" will be released on the streaming platform Max (nÊe HBO) on December 21. Gulman is one of my very favorite stand-up… Read the rest of the article: Gary Gulman's new comedy special on growing up poor
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Ruben Bolling The very entertaining Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut who helped fix the Hubble telescope in orbit, was on The Daily Show and explained in detail to host Kal Penn… Read the rest of the article: An astronaut explains pooping in space, and on the Moon
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Ruben Bolling In this deleted scene from the 2003 comedy Elf, Buddy, played by Will Ferrell, plays hockey with his small elf colleagues, and uses his superior size to violently manhandle his… Read the rest of the article: A deleted scene from "Elf" in which Buddy violently injures his elf friends
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Ruben Bolling đ Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Ken Paxton's Texas Christmas Special
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Ruben Bolling This week, Fantagraphics is releasing a gorgeous book reprinting the "Silly Symphony" comic strips from July, 1935, to February, 1939. "Silly Symphony" was syndicated to newspapers at this time as… Read the rest of the article: Silly Symphonies: New book beautifully publishes Disney comic strips from the 1930s
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Ruben Bolling The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center has released a report stating that Russia has been covertly purchasing Cameo video messages from US celebrities, purportedly for fans, and then manipulating them to… Read the rest of the article: Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader
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Ruben Bolling Writer and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff is a guest on the latest episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast to promote his new book, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and… Read the rest of the article: Comedians aren't constrained by cancel culture; they are freer today than ever
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Ruben Bolling đ Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Billy Dare in the Ominous Jungle
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Ruben Bolling Playstation users who purchased certain TV shows are about to find out they never really owned them at all, as they will soon be removed from their libraries. Link to… Read the rest of the article: PlayStation deleting TV shows that users already paid to "own"
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Ruben Bolling Scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University have created tiny "robots" out of human cells, that they call anthrobots. They used human cells from the trachea, and had them form… Read the rest of the article: Scientists make tiny robots out of human cells, and they repair neuron cells
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Ruben Bolling If you're home on New Year's Eve, why watch the insipid TV offerings of drunk almost-celebrities yammering between commercials? Even if it's just on in the background? Filmmaker and visual… Read the rest of the article: A compilation of New Year's Eve movie scenes, 1921-2015