According to one of my favorite web sites, the Internet Movie Database, the plot to the motion picture, The Aristocrats, is described as: One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke–one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville. An article in today’s New York Times puts it this way: How do you […]

Yes, I know, old news. But I’ll bet you didn’t know he bends bicycles, too. (Thanks to Red Ferret.) As an aside — and I’m not sure I should even mention this — but don’t you find more than a passing resemblance between Uri and Gerry McCambridge? Hey, I’m just asking.

One of the lovely benefits of (occasionally) writing in this blog is the email it generates. Not a lot of email, mind you. But what there is of it is usually very interesting, when it’s not amusing. Sometimes it’s both. Recently I received two emails basically asking the same thing: why did I (or anyone) […]

Jeff Jarvis makes a point I think might be relevant to some people in our bizarre little corner of the word. In today’s post Outboxed, Jarvis points out that Robert Greenwald is asking for contributors for his next movie, “Wal-Mart: The high Cost of Low Price” Greenwald says about his project: “WAL-MART: The High Cost […]

I wanted to make mention of a new blog in the Escamoteurettes blogroll: Great Scott! It’s Magic! — Scott Guinn’s blog. Like many folks in magic, I got to know Scott back in his Magic Cafe days. That led to us discussing and my subsequently purchasing from him the exclusive rights to seven of his […]

Down in Lou´siana where the black trees grow Live a voodoo lady named Marie Laveau. She got a black cat tooth and a mojo bone, And anyone wouldn´t leave her alone. She go GREEEEEEEEEEEE… Another man done gone. She live in a swamp in a hollow log With a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog. […]

Now that I have your attention, this is from Boing Boing this morning: James Randi’s letter from Doug Henning is stolen and on eBay Joseph sez, “Here’s a letter I (and others on the JREF mailing list) got from James Randi concerning a letter Doug Henning wrote to him which Randi states was stolen and […]