Brief Notes

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns this Sunday so Mr. Oliver's on with Colbert tonight to promote that fact. [CORRECTION: I'm told it was last night. It's waiting on my TiVo.]

My favorite pizza place, Vito's, didn't reopen in time for Super Bowl Sunday and it apparently remains closed. Apparently, the fire was worse than some of us thought.

Amazon is now saying that the next volume of The Complete Pogo will be released in October. I think this is just them picking an arbitrary placeholder date. Because of that COVID thing you might have heard about, a lot of publishers are having a lot of trouble getting printers to commit to when they can get books printed and bound, and we are having that problem. But present indicators are that it'll be a lot sooner than October.

My iPhone has decided to get very selective about which text messages it delivers to me and which ones it doesn't. If you send me a text, do not assume I received it. I think I'm due for a new phone but I also think I'm too busy to deal with that right now.

Puppet Up! — the "for adults" puppet show about which I have raved here — is performing for three nights in Hollywood — March 4, 5 and 6 — and tickets still seem to be available. These are the same nights my pal Frank Ferrante is doing his Groucho show in Sierra Madre. I just checked and Google Maps says these two shows are 45 minutes apart so it may be possible to work a double feature. If you want to attend either or both, click for ticket info on Puppet Up! and/or Frank Ferrante's Groucho.