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R. Crumb: It's Hard Being Hooked
R Crumb: The Paris Review Interview:...
The Time Junior Barnes Hit Bill Cosby In The Side Of The Face With A Slushball
It's snowing here in New York. Nothing's sticking yet but it made me think of this famous Cosby routine....
Woody: All Schoolyard
I was always interested in gangsters and people don't associate me with that because of their image of me on the screen. They think I'm more intellectual than I am, because I wear glasses and I'm built slightly.But the truth is I came from the streets of Brooklyn. I'm not educated—I mean I was throw...
Now Let Me Taka A Trip Down Memory Lane
The album version of Nas' mournful 1994 song "Memory Lane" is rightfully considered a classic. ...
The True School Tools Of The Trade
Pat Jordan's wife calls him a troglodyte, kicking a screaming into the 19th century. I first visited Pat at his home in Florida back in 2006 and looked through hundreds of manuscripts and drafts. I saw his tools of ignorance: an old Hermes 10 typewriter (he buys old machines on ebay for the parts), ...
Slap Me Five
A few years ago at ESPN the Magazine, Jon Mooallem wrote a piece on the history and mystery of the high five:...
Supernat & Smif n Wessun: New York Knicks Freestyle
Via the always-fun Up North Trips, let's go back to the grimey mid-'90s....
How To Draw Athletes The Ed Emberley Way
I didn't know from Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World when I was growing up and I'm not exactly sure how I missed it. Drawing was something I could do well from an early age. But while I was reading Richard Scarry's books and the story about Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Emberley was tea...
Furious Cool
That's the title of a new book about the great Richard Pryor by Joe Henry and David Henry. Here's a Q&A with the author's over at the Atlantic. And a review of the book at the A.V. Club....
Mom's Mabley": The First Female Stand-Up
Next Monday HBO will air Whoopi Goldberg's documentary on Mom's Mabley....
The Sporting Life Of Elliott Gould
James Hughes has a fun piece over on Elliott Gould over at Grantland:...
Bill Cosby Is (Still) A Very Funny Fellow
My man Jon Weisman interviews Cos over at Variety:...
Fred Allen: The Great Sourpuss
Dig this Library of America Story of the Week selection by Fred Allen, a great American wit whose popularity didn't translate from radio to television—man, did he ever hate TV....