Well, it’s been fun, people! Although we weekly columnists never got our own little tab in the ‘mix, we’ve always tried to entertain you, make you think, and just plain give you some good reading. Here are the final columns (mixed in with our other regular features) that have appeared this past week: Mike Gold…
This past weekend I was in California to attend my brother’s wedding. It was a lovely afternoon; they held the ceremony in the upstairs loft apartment attached to the back of their house, and the reception in their back yard. I still can’t figure out how they fit 120+ people in that space, but they…
Prepping this roundup a bit early this weekend, as I may be in transit from Los Angeles back to New York as it posts. Seasonal decorations just don’t look the same in L.A. Give me actual russets in nature, not just in store windows! On the other hand, I’ve had a nice few days’ break…
“Palling around with terrorists!” the Republican VP candidate chirped of her running-mate’s opponent to a hungry mob armed with the modern-day equivalent of torches and pitchforks, which would be ignorant shouts of “Kill him!” and signs reading “Obama bin Lyin’”. (Oh, they excel at the disgusting comparative pun, do members of this base. Who could…
Tampa Bay or Boston? Who will make the World Series this year? Clearly by the law of "they deserve it" it ought to be the Rays’ year, but even Yankees fans have to admire the way the Red Sox came back from that 7-0 deficit in Game 5. Unless they, like most of the rest…
I was but a wee babe in the ‘60s, and I don’t really remember JFK’s assassination, or his brother’s, or King’s. I don’t think we had separate drinking fountains for black and white kids in New Jersey. But I remember racism. Anti-Semitism affected me directly (we were the only Jewish family in a heavily Catholic…
It’s been a frustrating week for those of us with Bloglines, as new ComicMix items haven’t shown up since last Tuesday. Our news and comic alert feeds are two of the 50+ subscriptions not being updated on my reader at present. While this may make getting through unread blogs easier, it also necessitates lots…
Back in the spring during my job hunt, I took care of my annual checkup. I’d gotten fed up with my New Rochelle physician who’d kept up a steady drumbeat of “you need to lose weight” as the answer for everything from my heart scare to high blood pressure to allergies (the allergy advice seemed…
Congratulations to ComicMIx’s own Matt Raub for making it through 24 consecutive hours of movie-watching! He’s probably still sleeping as we write this. I’d hate to think of what he’s dreaming about. It could be worse, he could have watched 24 hours of presidential and VP candidate debates. Meanwhile, here’s what our columnists have brought…
White rabbits, and L’shana tova! My favorite season has finally arrived, and October is probably the best month in that season. There’s a delicious chill in the air, the leaves are already starting to turn, the Yanks have faded and the Mets have blown it (albeit on the last day this year, instead of crashing…
