I’ve printed out the NYCC panel schedule but I don’t feel nearly ready for this coming weekend. Stay tuned to these pages to find out where you can locate your favorite ComicMix people, including the ones who wrote these columns this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #61: Money Dennis O’Neill – The Four-Color…
The older I get, the more there is to keep track of. I realized this some time ago; part of being a grown-up, particularly if you’re on your own, is making hard choices. When I moved out of my parents’ house, I suddenly had to consider expenditures like rent, food, cat litter… and something had…
Hollywood icon Charlton Heston is no longer with us. Cineleet has a nice overview of his roles in three classic sf movies, but of course he was so much more, both on the screen and in real life. Whatever one might think of his politics, the fact that he and his now-widow Lydia were married…
As much as I’d like to use this column’s title to segue into a discussion about Beijing and Tibet and Stephen Spielberg and so forth, that’s not my chosen subject matter this time. Although I reserve the right to swipe my own header again once the XXIX Olympiad gets going. No, the title refers to…
Wow, March seemed to fly by even faster than February, didn’t it? But opening day is finally upon us, allergy season is already in full swing and ComicMix columnists are nipping things in the bud as usual: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #59: To Boldly Go Backward Again Me – It’s All Good #58: In…
So as I was saying last week, by the time I hit college I went full-force into my first round of Beatlemania. I must have frequented my share of Beatlefests (as noted in the comments to last week’s column, there’s one coming up in NJ this weekend), but really only remember going to one because…
I’m still recovering from my yearly giggle-fest as my husband and I spent last night MST-ing the Biblical epic The Ten Commandments, which for some reason was shown on Easter weekend rather than Passover weekend. Always remember, Eliezar, he passed over your holiday! So many great quotable lines in that film. ComicMix columnists have been…
Last week we were casting about, as usual, for something interesting to watch in the 100-200 channel range of our cable system. The local PBS stations were hip-deep in pledge drives, which meant 20-minute breaks between segments of shows that would otherwise have been enjoyable but which we’d mostly seen anyway by this point. (Did…
Can it be? Is convention season well and truly underway? No, I’m not ready yet! Need job first! Hello to everyone at WizWorld LA, LunaCon and everywhere else I can’t afford to be. At least I and our other weekly ComicMix columnists can engage you from the comparative safety of our home keyboards: Mike Gold…
Last Saturday was International Women’s Day, the first IWD where women in the United States were facing the very strong possibility that an Estrogen-American would become their next President — and the equally strong reality that lots of people (mostly men, but a surprising number of women as well) are committed to seeing that she…
Where does the time go? Why does nobody complain about having an extra hour to sleep in the autumn? And does anyone really feel the need to answer rhetorical questions? Our weekly ComicMix columnists may not have the answers, but they still make for good reading on a truncated Sunday: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo…
8:30 AM, Bx7 bus southbound to subway: It’s favored by Luddites and techies alike. Early adopter Neil Gaiman, for instance, writes all his first drafts this way, using various fancy pens. (Me, I use my Uniball blue roller ’cause it’s what I carry in my pocketbook.) It’s physically draining, at least if you’re not used…
