Can anyone tell me the owner of NY license plate 65232 JN commercial plate. Post here or email me at padguy@aol.com. Right now.
EDITED TO CORRECT LICENSE NUMBER
UPDATED 7:38 PM–Kath got into a fender bender and the other party was being intransigent about providing information. But it’s all been sorted out since then.
Because now the news media gets to obsess over an even MORE pointless citizenship story than his place of birth.
In Superman #900, in a back-up story, Superman renounces his American citizenship.
And news media from coast to coast went completely bat guano.
Why do I have a feeling that, when President Obama said the news media needed to focus on important matters rather than silliness, the media going nuts over the decisions of a fictional character in a nine page backup story wasn’t what he had in mind?
PAD
UPDATED April 30th, 8:44 AM:
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I want to make it clear that when I’m talking about overreaction or matters of more importance, I’m not taking issue with the fan reaction. In fact, most of the fan reaction I’ve seen has been in response not to the story, but to the media’s coverage of the story.
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Fans will spend days, even weeks dissecting the latest developments, and that’s SOP. But you don’t see Fox, CNN, Entertainment Weekly and the Associated Press weighing in on whether Utopia is a good idea or is Cyclops just being a paranoid dìçk.
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Furthermore, some members of the media are using it as an excuse to tee off on Obama, liberals, and even comics fans themselves. Witness Cal Thomas of the ever reliable Fox News who declared, “Construed? Would comic book readers have heard of such a word? This storyline sounds as if it was written by an acolyte of the Obama administration.” I don’t which is more appalling. The notion that comics fans, some of the most literate people around, are challenged by any words that are polysyllabic. Or the implication that fans of the Obama administration being intelligent is somehow a bad thing, presumably because presidents and their supporters should always be monosyllabic.
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Hey. Cal Thomas. On behalf of comics fans everywhere: Go defenestrate yourself.
We went to see the extremely limited run of “Company” at Lincoln Center this afternoon. Talk about your once-in-a-lifetime casts: Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Anika Noni Rose, and Patti LuPone (showing that she can still stop a show when she belted out “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch.”) Considering the minimal amount of time they must have had to rehearse, they did a superb job with it. A Sondheim show that has truly aged well.
Also, speaking of aging well, funny story: We ate at a restaurant called P.J. Rourke’s and among various decorations on the wall, they had a photograph taken in what looked like the days of old radio, and it looked to be of an incredibly young Fyvush Finkel, a legend of Jewish theater not to mention such programs as “Picket Fences” and “Boston Public.” But no one in the restaurant knew if it was him. So who did we run into coming out of Lincoln Center, departing the same performance of “Company” as we had just seen? Fyvush Finkel, who verified that it was indeed a picture of him. In case you’re wondering, he liked the show.
Scientists in the Czech Republic believe that they have discovered a gay caveman.
Supposedly, unlike other cavemen, he likes Geico because he believes the company’s name is actually Guy Co.
PAD
For those not watching it, it was billed as a three day battle between man and machine: Two champions (Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter) square off against an IBM-created supercomputer called Watson that’s supposed to be better, smarter and faster than any human.
Except that’s not what I’ve been watching. I’ve been watching an extended infomercial for IBM, and it’s starting to annoy the hëll out of me. I didn’t mind an initial five minute background about how Watson was developed, but this endless plugging of IBM is wearing thin. It took two days to play a single game of “Jeopardy!” because we basically had a cumulative half hour of extolling IBM’s greatness.
Continue Reading “Am I the Only One Getting Annoyed by the Jeopardy Challenge?”
We’re all officially impressed. You’re the Top Man, the Big Kahuna. We get it. You’ve proven your point.
Now enough with the snow already.
PAD
I’ve written three episodes of “Ben 10: Ultimate Alien,” and the first of them will be airing this Friday, October 15, at 7:30 PM EST on Cartoon Network. Title is “Reflected Glory.” Be sure to tune in.
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