Ariana Grande wasn’t on my radar because I don’t have a lot of time for music these days...but damn, now I have to check out her music. I was really impressed with her switching up styles and with her voice. I thought she was pretty damn funny too (keeping that deer in the headlights look the whole way through that…

The radio show Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad (also at www.ideastream.org) occasionally would play her recordings. I’m not a fan of comedies of embarrassment and really found listening to her uncomfortable.

Crap. Assholes. I thought the initial Last Shadow Puppets album was pretty good and Kane had a song I liked; I can’t give more money to this doofus.

It was amusing listening to Will Shortz try to tiptoe around this on NPR this past Sunday morning, just after his regularly scheduled weekly segment. Him being the Times puzzle editor and all.

It’s grace notes like this silly character that get me interested in a game. In a unrelated note, I’ve played too much Witcher 3; that hollow log in the video made me itch to check for florens and orens.

My wife is not a sports fan. Last night I got her to watch the compilation tape of all 12 of Curry’s 3's from that game. She then had me look up his half-court shot videos. It’s all over the internet, not just Gawker, because Curry is one of those transcendent sports figures that get everyone’s attention. We can’t…

Guess I’m an outlier. I like the Sunday Comics. Sure, some weeks are stronger than others, but so what? Please keep them coming.

This will be the 4th copy of this film that I buy, when it becomes available. Hope the restoration gets somewhere in upstate NY (Ithaca?) so I can see it on the big screen.

I seem to have a 9.5" span. Any NFL teams interested?

This is great news. this goes to the top of the watch list, it will be difficult waiting for it. A Wrinkle In Time was the first SF/fantasy book I read and it left a lasting imprint.

My favorite “expansion on a movie” was “The World of Kong,” a Weta art book that essentially was a wildlife guide to the 2005 version of Skull Island. I still bring out the book and skim through it; I love the imagination and the sheer creepiness of some of the ideas, especially the pit dwellers.

So if the “written” column returns, then this will be the only Funbag I miss this year. I don’t have time for podcats; I read a lot faster than people talk so listening to podcasts means I miss more on line.

Trump: Staying true to the brand.

Elvis is Everywhere

Nice to know you can be suspended for being correct at ESPN.

I hope the “10 year window” is flexible; in an industry notorious for dismissing women as being marketable as they age, wouldn’t this aspect have a chance at reducing the number of women on the voting roster?

One of the funniest things my partner ever did was get into a display-off with a tom turkey at a NC game farm. She unbuttoned her coat, held it open and flapped at the turkey while doing a very creditable gobble. The turkey puffed up and angrily talked back at her. This went on for a minute (we didn’t want to freak…

No tax money for sports teams. period.

My company just forced us to go from an hour lunch to 30 minutes. No time to do anything and certainly no time to get out and walk a bit.

I want to check out Telenovela; one of my guilty pleasure movies is Soapdish, and I’m up for another soap-oriented comedy if it’s done that well. here’s hoping.