When the choices were Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies, two gag-driven rural comedies pumped full of canned laugher, along came a sitcom more true to women and the times. The laughter was real. Update: From Hollywood, James L. Brooks’s response:
CBS artifact
Originally published in February 2016 in Blog
George Jetson
Originally published in November 2015 in Blog, Doodling, Illustration
Did you know that when the The Jetsons debuted in 1962, George was a Digital Index Operator at Spacely Space Sprockets Inc.? That job was funny then, but weirdly familiar now, like so many gadgets and scenarios in that great cartoon. If you really want to geek out, George earned his living pushing a […]
Bye, Summer
Originally published in September 2015 in Blog
She loves me
Originally published in June 2015 in Blog
There’s a reason why guitar strummers always get the girl. Even base players have been taken aback over how easily the hugs and propositions flow after a show. We’ve been saying it since the 1970s: some guys are just more “sensitive.” Women notice men who can emote — or who, at least, convince us they […]
Why I didn’t work it
Originally published in February 2015 in Blog
Move over
Originally published in December 2014 in Blog
New technology has always been forcing us to change. Here is a priceless vignette by Doris Lessing about the introduction of the television set to the row houses of post-war London. [I]t was the summer of 1950. Before I left Denbigh Road I saw the end of an era, the death of a culture: television […]
Made in prison
Originally published in May 2013 in Blog
