It has become a ritual for me to enter the New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I won only once, long ago in April 2011, and the magazine's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, wrote a blog about that. In his blog…
I don't like to link to music vidos that are only slideshows, without live performance footage. But this first clip is my favorite Burnside song, and I think it's appropriate for hard times. R. L. Burnside on Wikipedia.
My website is unique for the variety of critical voices it features. At Ebertfest this year, seven Far-Flung Correspondents and five Demanders joined directors, actors and other critics in the panel discussions.
David Lavery writes about the nature writer Loren Eiseley: In All the Strange Hours, as he watches growing packs of wild dogs prowling along Market Street in Philadelphia, Eiseley imagines that the takeover is very far advanced and that the…
The appeal of The Stroll is that (1) everybody could do it, and (2) it was the luck of the line who your partner turned out to be, unless you cheated and traded places in line. Now here is the…
There must be a reason why. Not a physical reason, but one involving style or artistry. It creates a more compact character shape, implying tension. Better than just plain landing on your feet. This nifty video was edited by Duncan…
Marie Haws found this cartoon for the latest issue of the Ebert Club Newsletter. She writes: "It's by the British cartoonist/animator behind the Daily Express' cartoon strip "Bewley." Ant Blades has designed a series of clever shorts for BBC Comedy…
From Ari Gold: When I was twenty, my mother was killed in a helicopter crash with rock music promoter Bill Graham, whom she had recently begun dating after a nearly two-decades courtship. To many rock musicians and fans, Graham was…
Here is Isa Leshko's website. Thanks for the link to Anath White, who writes me: "Older dogs always get me. It's as if they know it all, and can look into things"
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