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Brian Smith
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One of my favorite Jay Leno off-the-cuff remarks — yes, I do have some, don't judge me — was back in 2000, when Katie Couric came on the show around the time of the Democratic National Convention. For some reason, she'd gotten a temporary Al Gore tattoo on her left arm: "The arm, that's kind of like a wing, you know?

It's also a phrase that I keep hearing in the voice of Lady Miss Kier singing "Groove Is In the Heart." And yes, this whole thing is awful, but imagining Sean Spicer saying this and then singing "I couldn't ask for another! ah ah ah ah no I couldn't ask for another!" DOES make me smile.

I should note here that we are living in The Frogs Who Wished for a King times; we had eight years of the log that made a big splash, but all the frogs held it in contempt and made fun of it and demanded a leader they could respect or even fear. They got a stork who didn't care about them and started devouring them.

Who will play the teenage girl who lives in the apartment building that Ruth Bader Ginsburg owns, and who will be that girl’s two dads? And what former football player will run the cafe on the first floor?

Jackson had pledged that if he lost, he wasn't going to act all happy for whomever won. So I made sure to watch him when they announced the winner, and sure enough, at that moment, Samuel L. Jackson used foul language, which should be a surprise to exactly no one. It's at about 1:13 in this clip: https://www.youtube.co

One of my favorite Fox Trot weekday strips was published on Jan. 1, 1999, and I think back to it whenever I think how we’re living in the future now and it keeps letting us down. THE SCENE: Roger and Andy Fox are at the breakfast table reading the paper.

Nobody seems to know which critic said it after that year's Academy Awards, but it's a line that pops up online sometimes:

Is your question about a reactor in the planet core “How do they keep the gooberfish from nibbling at it?” Because until someone tells me differently, I’m assuming that every Star Wars planet is like Naboo: Hollow, basically a cosmic water balloon that’s easy to burst, and chock-full of progressively larger gooberfish.

I will quote from their travel guide, State by State with The State, to anyone at any time.

The conservative theory is this: If you build a wind farm, or a solar farm, you ALSO have to build a gas-powered or coal-powered plant that will kick in on days without much wind or much sun. Therefore, wind energy means two power plants and twice as much expense.

It IS sad that we've seen fewer details of Trump's infrastructure plan than we have of Roger's, and Roger's is just "paint everything yellow…no, turquoise."

I will NOT have you speak ill of Canada Guy! Whenever I fly, I always drink Canada Guy ginger ale and it is DELICIOUS.

The one right before (the first big clash) and the one right after (the heroes get a mountain dropped on them). My issue 3 of that series is a second printing I got from my cousin when he managed to wrangle a first printing from someone.

All comics that are gone from heavy wear and tear, because they were from my early youth: The oversized Marvel Special Edition adapting Star Wars, that Spider-Man/Green Goblin comic that was the tie-in for Aim toothpaste, and a friend's digest comic that he brought to camp that had the classic DC imaginary tale where

On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2000:

QUICK DUMB STORY: About two years ago I went to a Hawaiian-themed restaurant with a couple of my best friends. The owner greeted us with a friendly “Aloha!”, at which point one of my friends said, “No, we just got here.”

According to this book I've been reading, Steve Forbes is a babe magnet with a musky Victor Mature-like scent, and definitely NOT a geek with a crooked smile.</snl-reference>

After Michelle Rodriguez was arrested for DUI in Hawaii, my best friend started the rumor at his job that she told the officer, "You can't arrest me! I'm the star of Lost!" Apparently nobody ever doubted it, and he took pride in the rumor's spread.

I was most partial to “Sean Hannity is a Hack , there's a Reason that Sarah Palin NEVER went on Hannity's show unless she was being paid by FoxNews or promoting her book.”