Nellie Blog

My dad's work -- 1951   (That's me on the left)

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like a puppy! Funniest card I've had in years, this comes from the breeder of several of my r...

I like John Tenniel, I like Clay Bennett, and I really like this cartoon.

What lead time does Hilary Price work with? I'd say, given this evidence , that Rhymes with Orange has a lead time of about four we...

My Hero! Why can't we have more compassionate, public-spirited guys like this in the Senate? For someone like me, laid off before I wa...

E&P folds after 125 years My past life as a business writer makes me believe in the tortoise, not the hare. I've seen people who ...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Beck - Not So Mellow Gold www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes P...

A final thought, before the memories fade ... The morning after the murders at the Ecole Polytechnique , CHOM-FM's normally jocular m...

Little Murders (This column appeared in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, December 12, 1989) Every time I go to Montreal, I fall in...

Speaking of good hosts ... My main thing is that I'm blessed, and God has put me in a situation where I don't need for anythin...

Hilary Price, hostess extraordinaire Every year, Hilary Price, who draws the hilarious, insightful strip "Rhymes with Orange," ha...

And don't miss the Burger King tie-in I've got nothing to add. Ruben Bolling speaks for me today. Except that it will be nice for p...

In our village, we stopped for things that mattered (This column originally appeared in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, November 17, ...

Futility In King Vidor's 1928 classic, "The Crowd," a baby's father speculates to the neighbors on the grand things ahead...

Speaking of a credit crisis ... November 9 marks (more or less) the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actual destruction ...

Someday, all this won't be yours They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everythin...

Self-expression in a hard world Daryl Cagle recently returned from a trip to the Middle East where he met with editorial cartoonists from Pa...

Nine-part story starting now! This week has seen the start of "Tommy and the Guttersnipe," an eight-chapter story with a holiday s...

The gift of a future I've mentioned Esther Garvi's blog, and the Eden Foundation which her family has established in Niger. Their g...

Two Quarks for Muster Mike (Adventures in the Software Trade) The past week has been fairly quiet as I spent most of it saying bad words, ac...