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Hey, it's another installment of "Tales From My Spinner Rack!"

It's kinda fun to wake up each morning and see which judge — including many that Trump appointed — is ruling against Trump today.

Tonight on TCM, they're saluting Chuck Jones, the director of many a great animated cartoon.

Let's get off the subject of Trump and back to comics and other fun topics.

Did you watch Trump's speech before the United Nations.

I have this feeling that everyone reading this blog understands that Donald Trump's whining about "Fake News" is just an attack on those who correct his lies and report on facts he'd rather deny.

You've probably seen the footage today of Trump giving a speech at the dedication of the new White House heliport.

The other day here, we heard — or at least, you heard if you clicked in the right places — four songs that remind me of my mother.

They're about to revive Annie again on Broadway for the jillion-and-a-halfth time.

In his last years, Orson Welles did a lot of things for money that you might have thought were beneath a gentleman of his stature.

Here are four videos of rather old records.

John Oliver returns to the air tomorrow night.

I'm kinda losing track.

This weekend marks thirty-eight years since the debut of what may turn out to be the best job I ever had in my life…and it sure doesn't feel like thirty-eight years.

For anyone young enough to be puzzled by a recent reference to a "typewriter" on this site, here's a demonstration of what that machine was like — and here's the only use they seem to have today…

Here's the latest Fred Kaplan column.

The men of Lemon Squeezy favor us with a selection from Hamilton…

Gary Cundall sent me a question from his iPhone.

Another right-on-target rant from our man in the U.K., Jonathan Pie…

Concerned that our government is either doing too little to deal with the challenge of Artificial Intelligence or too much?

Last night, Stephen Colbert guested on Jimmy Kimmel's show and presented him with a gift.

Netflix is now streaming all six seasons and 135 episodes of SCTV.

COVID changed the world a lot and one thing it did was to create new uses for the Internet and programs like Zoom.

From October 25, 1993 — MTV takes a chance on a new talk program, The Jon Stewart Show.

Someone who signs this name "Roger" sent me the following… My gal and I very much enjoyed Comic-Con this past July, in part because we for the most part avoided the trading floor and spent our time upstairs attending panels and presentations.

In the previous post, autocorrect autocorrected the word “folks” to “fools.”

I'm not watching the Emmy Awards tonight and, as tomorrow's ratings will probably prove, I'm not alone in skipping this kind of show.

Here's an article you oughta read even though it's not written by Fred Kaplan.

Among the many interesting things one can find on YouTube are the music tracks used for ambience at the Disney theme parks.

To begin reading at the start of this long, long rambling essay, click here.

Assassins was — and I guess still is — a Stephen Sondheim musical that a lot of Sondheim fans seem to forget about.

Here's a clip from a year or so ago on The Daily Show.

The Park Avenue Synagogue is located on East 87th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and it often incorporate show tunes into its services.

We have here a look at a recording of My Fair Lady that came out last year.

I apologize for the bad audio and video here — and if you know of better copies, please let me know and I'll swap them in.

Every time I see even part of a speech by Donald Trump lately, I think of this scene from the Woody Allen movie, Bananas…

Each year on 9/11, some of us — and I've done this — feel the need to get into the time machine that YouTube and other online sources give us and return to that morning.

Fred Kaplan — my guide to where we stand with Iraq — was appalled at the speech Trump gave at his campaign rally the other night.

Here's another installment of Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live.

A reader of this site, Nelson Ho, did me a large favor.

I was going to write something about Donald Trump's new promise to give every American a big check if the Republicans keep the House and Senate in the upcoming election.

Surfing the 'net lately, I see an awful lot of ads for new food items that are tempting to try.

It's almost an hour of segments that 60 Minutes did on Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Trevor Noah.

Why is there no end in sight for our war — it's a WAR, people!

Since the disasters of 9/11, Donald Trump has come up with story after story about what he did that day and subsequent visits to Ground Zero.

Another reason to love and respect Jon Stewart…

If you haven't read previous parts of this series, clicking here will take you back to the beginning.

Here's a real good (but real long) documentary on the building of Disneyland.

As you may recall, I haven't decided if I'm going to see the national touring company of Boop!

The Jerry Lewis Telethon remembered… One year, I was asked to write for the telethon and I turned it down.