May 2008
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Portmanteau, Part Deux
We love our portmanteau words here at Salt in Wound. But with great power comes great responsibility. So I believe we must also serve as Portmanteau Police, seeking out infractions of the form. Case in point: A radio commercial for the Subaru Forester that I’m guessing is not airing in the greater Topanga area. The […]
Ziggy
No doubt this escaped your attention, but the author(s) of Ziggy have lately become delusional over the idea of inanimate objects talking to us. This has had the unintended consequence of making the comic strip interesting for the first time in decades, possibly ever. Often it’s a computer doing the talking (Figure 1). These are […]
White House Press Secretary’s Book Excoriates Bush
Here I go again, introducing politics once more into our fairly non-political blog, but I had to get your reactions on this one. Bush’s former press secretary, Scot McCLellan, has written a book that will hit shelves Monday in which he absolutely obliterates dubya. He talks about the unparalleled lying, the “culture of deception” and […]
Just for Fun
It so happened we were in S.F. when we stumbled upon Janis Joplin’s house for sale. It’s in Marin county, for a little over a million dollars. It was a nice wooded dead- end street.
"Yo’ Mama" Joke I Wrote Today, End of Sixth Inning, Yankee Stadium
“Your mama is so skinny, when she does the YMCA dance, it’s in cursive.”
R.I.P. Dick Martin
Laugh-In and Batman were the first and last shows to get me excited about color television. But when I was excited, I was very excited. The writing on Batman holds up better than the writing on Laugh-In. Even at the time, I knew it was sort of stupid. Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Alan Seuss and […]
Anne of the Thousand Days versus The Tudors
When I was ten years old, a movie version of my grandfather’s play, Anne of the Thousand Days, was released. He’d made his mark in the 1930s with several historical dramas, written in blank verse, including Elizabeth the Queen (later made into a movie with Bette Davis) and Mary of Scotland (the film starred Katharine […]
Catch Me In "Recount" on HBO
Self promotion. What an ugly, indulgent, self-serving practice. So very Hollywood, and so very contemptible in every way. So, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…. watch me! Please watch me! Okay, perhaps not exactly watch as much as hear me as I provide the voice for George W. Bush in the HBO […]
Toys for Girls
Spotted in a toy store in Chinatown, San Francisco:
Jack Silbert, curator