Billy Debeck put soooo much effort into this sheet music cover (above). It's as if the act of drawing was a sheer delight to him and he ...

The picture above isn't me. It's Czeslaw Milosz, the writer. More about him in a minute. What I need to talk about now is cartoon ac...

No, I'm not gay, and I'm not obsessed with musicals, but I've had to study dance moves lately and I'm glad I did.  Animation...

I thought I'd open with an example of pure disco (above), before talking about how the form morphed into other styles. Of course you cou...

Gee, it's kinda sad to think that one of the most influential genre writers of the past four decades died last year with hardly a yawn f...

Disneyland (LA) is an amazing place. It's corporate and wrong in so many ways, yet it still manages to do a bunch of things right. I ju...

As I write this I still haven't seen these videos together. I have no idea if this is going to work. Maybe I'm about to publi...