Tag: Larry Brody

Is Modern Tech Doing S-F in?

Even if current technology isn’t destroying science fiction, it’s certainly eliciting a lot of unintended smiles. But just between us, we think the best of the s-f published and produced for TV and radio is holding up pretty well. Or is it?

Modern Tech Makes Science Fiction Look Like Ancient Past
by Dave McQuilling

People have used fiction to escape the mundane world they live their daily lives in since the dawn of time. Unfortunately, due to relatively recent technological strides, things that would have seemed fantastical or impossible a few decades ago may now be on par with something you have lying on your coffee table. read article

LB: “…How to smoke weed socially — and safely — in the COVID-19 era”

by Larry Brody

Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.

The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know: read article

LB: “Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?”

by Larry Brody

Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:

The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.

Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.” read article

A Personal Message from Herbie J Pilato to All His Friends & Fans

NOTE FROM LB: I think he’s just trying to make us jealous…and succeeding with me!

by Herbie J Pilato

In a secret, magic garden with the lovely, legendary actress (and one of my teen crushes) Juliet Mills, star of TV’s classic “Nanny and the Professor” series as well as much, much more:

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Cartoon: ‘Ways of Being’

Today, our favorite cartoonist-philosopher, Grant Snider, gives us a visual lesson on “being,” and we’re happy to tell you right now that the last panel is our all-time, absolute favorite take on the subject.

More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE