Today's Guest: Elizabeth Fournier, green mortician, author, All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates I have a particular weakness for men and women with stories of dates gone horribly wrong. And I think I’m already on record as having a general weakness for all kinds of women. Add that to the fact... Continue Reading →
Neil Budde says DailyMe.com is not all about Me, Me, Me! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I’m not one of those crybabies who thinks newspapers are dying. I do, however, think that the news itself is migrating to new distribution systems and that, in the future, the word “paper” will be less and less connecting with the word “news.”Okay, maybe I do think newspapers are dying. But I believe well-managed,... Continue Reading →
Lovely Katie McGrath brings the pain to Merlin on TV! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Katie McGrath, actress, "Merlin," "Supergirl" Katie McGrath plays Lady Morgana in the new NBC dramatic import, “Merlin.” The shows airs every Sunday at 8 p.m. Katie is a relative newcomer to acting, as I understand it, although American audiences may have seen her in an episode of Showtime’s popular drama, “The Tudors,”... Continue Reading →
Ted Turner’s favorite TV host, Bill Tush, takes a swing! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bill Tush, long-time WTBS Superstation TV personality You kids today think you’ve got it made, what with hundreds of cable TV channels, each one focused on a narrow genre like death and destruction, Herpes, and funny things you can do with string. But back when I was in college there were only... Continue Reading →
On Parks and Recreation, Aziz Ansari only gets a little Randy! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Aziz Ansari, comedian, actor, "Parks and Recreation," "Master of None," Funny People Aziz Ansari, who starred in both NBC’s “Parks & Recreation” and ABC’s “Scrubs” was just in Montreal for the annual Just For Laughs Comedy and Film Festival. He went there to promote his new movie, Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Seth... Continue Reading →
Fantagraphics guys defend the art of criticism! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Gary Groth, Kim Thompson, editors, The Comics Journal, Fantagraphics They are probably the best-known good cop/bad cop team in comics today. “They” are Gary Groth, the founder of The Comics Journal, and his partner in Fantagraphics—and fellow editor—Kim Thompson. Fantagraphics is a preeminent publisher of comics –related books and magazines, including the... Continue Reading →
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files draw a graphic crowd! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Novelist Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files. I am NOT the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. The only book in the series that I’ve read is the first, which my wife and I took turns reading aloud to my daughter when she was just learning to read herself. Since then, they’ve... Continue Reading →
Novelist Kamran Pasha tells of the Mother of the Believers! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Kamran Pasha, novelist, Mother of the Believers. Kamran Pasha is a brave man. He knows that Sherry Jones’ book, The Jewel of Medina—about the birth of Islam—lost its initial publisher in 2008 because of the ruckus it stirred up. He knows that filmmaker Moustapha Akkad—who created the 1977 movie The Messenger, about... Continue Reading →
Making It to the Middle with gay comedian Jason Stuart! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Jason Stuart, comedian, actor I’m not one to put labels on a person, but I guess if the cover of Jason Stuart’s latest DVD can describe him as “America’s top gay stand-up comic,” then it’s okay for me to repeat it. But that leads to a question: Does “gay” mean homosexual men... Continue Reading →
Big, proud, funny and loud, it’s comedian Ralphie May! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Ralphie May, comedian Ralphie May is the big man on the comedy campus. You know that if you’ve ever seen him—he’s a heavyset southern guy with soft gentle looking facial features. Then he opens his mouth—and, oh my God! You probably remember Ralphie May best from season one of “Last Comic... Continue Reading →