Drollery

Famed family turn out to have quite interesting names after all I only occasionally go to the movies,  and then usually only to foreign language films, (which must lack whimsy and in which the dog must not die). As a result I by and large missed the work of the talented late actor River Phoenix, or that…

Roger Ebert, the celebrated Chicago Sun-Times film critic and general good egg, recently won a New Yorker caption competition after 107 attempts spread over many years.  He wrote a nicely dry column for the Guardian about it, which in the Web version, omits the actual cartoons.  Ebert’s quest to win a competition is also covered…

An interesting quandary in the otherwise very certain moral world of the followers of Harold Camping, was described in a wonderfully deadpan way in a recent  Business Week article.  The link is here , but I cover the part that particularly tickled me below. The followers of Harold Camping are of course the people who…