Delicious Library

Here's a recommended tech for you - a Mac application called Delicious Library.

I've been struggling for a few years to perfect a DVD database of my own (first using MS-Access, and lately MySQL). Making a DB of the titles was easy, but adding details like extras, episodes, and actors can be a real pain.

Delicious Library makes it ridiculously simple to enter all this data. In fact, you don't even have to touch the keyboard. Just hold the UPC symbol from the DVD box up to your webcam and the software does the rest. It recognizes the bar-code, and pulls everything you need from various web sources... amazing.

You can also print reports and publish the results to a web site.

It's not free ($40) - but the price is worth it.

Dock Ellis

In Dock's own words - an animated version of his legendary big-league no-hitter on June 12, 1970 against the Padres.

A no-hitter thrown, lest we forget, while on LSD.

Top 50 Worst Video Game Voice-Overs

You'll love #46... but do stay for #3. You'll be glad you did.

The Funny Side

Here is a forgotten sketch comedy show called The Funny Side. I'm guessing that even a few of the people who worked on the show might forget it existed.

I remember it for two reasons - it was a favorite of mine, and it was on around the time I started grade school.

In case you missed the subtle casting of The Funny Side from this clip - it consisted of "couples" that hit every age/race demographic (at the time) - 20's, 30's, 40's, decrepit, and black. All hosted by Hollywood legend Gene Kelly. (Television was crawling with shows like this in the early '70s).

A few comments about the cast. John Amos and Cindy Williams went on to successful careers in sitcoms. (Good Times and Laverne and Shirley - respectively). Dick Clair passed away during the '80s, but was cryogenically frozen - so look for a comeback any day now.

Larry King / Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean accuses Larry King of acting inappropriately. She then removes her microphone and strikes up a conversation with someone off-camera mid-interview.

Bob Einstein as Super Dave Osborne

Above, we have Super Dave Osborne's appearance this week on The Tonight Show. Funny stuff, as usual.

Comic Bob Einstein (aka Albert Brooks' older brother) has gotten a lot of mileage out of this character - which he has been performing since 1972. Take a look at this clip from a 1990 appearance on David Letterman's Late Night. It's essentially the same act he did on Conan - in each case, the host is "in" on the pre-scripted comedy.

You may also recognize Einstein as "Marty Funkhouser" on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I had a good time looking through his official site today - especially the photo gallery, which contains pictures from his long-forgotten 1970 paperback.

Sesame Street - Ma Nah Ma Na

Because good things come in fives - we finish our mini-tribute to Sesame Street with a little something called "Ma Nah Ma Na".