Oct 31, 2019
My Halloween Appearance on the Beeb Happy Halloween! Here's my appearance earlier today on the BBC Program "The Ticket" where I discuss the differences between…
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My Halloween Appearance on the Beeb Happy Halloween! Here's my appearance earlier today on the BBC Program "The Ticket" where I discuss the differences between…
2025 Highlights: The Travisian Year in Review
My annual report, down to the wire, and a little truncated. But I want to celebrate this year’s triumphs, and to thank you for being a part of it. There were fewer public events this year, and if I’ve seemed quiet it’s because I’ve been in my rabbit warren writing like a maniac. Of particular note is the amount I have leaned into blogging. I’ve set a new record for the number of posts in a…
The "Chain of Fools" Audiobook is Out!
Good news — even to me! It seems the audiobook version of my 2013 book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube has been out for two weeks, and nobody told me! That’s right — an audio book about silent movies! Hear about comedy that’s designed for the eye! Picture the pratfalls! Visualize the violence! You may wish to mix this experience with Magic…
For World Book Day: My New One on the Marx Brothers
For obvious reasons, I was going to wait and launch promotion of my newest book at Marxfest next month, but, like a thief in the night, sales have already begun online, and today being World Book Day it seemed an appropriate time to inform the world (and also we’ll be giving away some free copies to lucky winners at Surf Coney Island this Saturday). The Marx Brothers Miscellany: A Subjective…
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Travalanche Turns Sweet 16 (and Also Four)
February 29, 2008 was the day Travalanche was launched, making this erstwhile offspring of mine 16 years old, but having had only four birthdays. A Leap Year Baby. I launched the blog while I was the marketing person for Brooklyn’s public access cable TV station. Though I was only there for a short time, and I was hoping to get much more out of the experience, in retrospect it was a significant…
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The Podcasts of Travalanche
Happy National Podcast Day! In honor of the day, I’ve done a little round-up of some of my more recent (i.e., post-Covid) podcast appearances for your delectation. (And please stay tuned for an upcoming, we’ll be discussing Edgar Bergen with the gals of The Murphy Brown Podcast — that one’s set to drop in a few days). And of course the Chain of Fools audiobook which will be out in a few weeks,…
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'22: The Year in Review
’22: The Year in Review
The image above is from the wrong ’22, of course — it’s a still from Cecil B. De Mille’s Manslaughter and depicts the aftermath of an orgy. We should have been so lucky! I’m about a week late in preparing this post, which has been an annual exercise for me for years. Like all workaholics I always feel like “I haven’t done anything”, and this year felt more like that than usual so I dragged my…
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Trav S.D.'s Quarantine Song
Trav S.D.’s Quarantine Song
Happy Easter! It’s well timed this year, isn’t it? Thanks to Spring Hay Fever I go to bed at least once a week convinced I’m going to die, and then wake up the next morning, lo and behold, I don’t have Covid-19!
At any rate, I look forward to a general rebirth. I don’t know if the nation is PAST the curve yet, but as always I’m BEHIND the curve. It only took me a month to figure out my rapid…
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