Harvey Pekar: 1939-2010
In Heeb's Politics Issue, Pekar (R.I.P.) asks the question: Are God's Children too stupid? Click here to view the full comic....
Alaskan Drilling
It's easy to imagine that this is what a voicemail from Senator John McCain to Governor Sarah Palin might sound like.Comedian Lee Camp posted the hilarious mockmail of the Republican Party's geriatric candidat...
In Need of Therapy
Being the fully actuated, completely self absorbed egomaniac that we are, Jewdar has never needed therapy. But we understand that many of my fellow Tribespeople are not so fortunate. We also understand that t...
Donna Feldman on Red Eye
If any of you are up at 3:00 a.m. EST, be sure to catch Heeb swimsuit model Donna Feldman on the Fox News show, Red Eye. It looks like she peeled her nose out of Portnoy's Complaint long enough to talk about he...
Spitzer Girl Gone Wild
Because the Elliott Spitzer media circus wasn't enough, the call girl in the middle, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, is now suing "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis for more than $10 million in damages. A...
SXSW Recap, Part III
I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...
SXSW Recap Part II
The point of SXSW is to hear the bands you're not all that familiar with. This is what I keep explaining to the people inquiring about the acts I saw this past weekend. Sure, R.E.M. was there and so was My Morn...
SXSW Recap Part I
This past weekend, nearly 2,000 bands descended on Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival and in the three days that I was there, I managed to see 29 of them. Thirty, if you count the Holy Fuck set that I i...
Susie Essman at Heeb Storytelling
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President Bloomberg?
As Republican and Democratic Presidential hopefulls increasingly become hopeless, Michael Bloomberg continues to "raise his profile.":http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/bloomberg-drops-no-hints-in-okl...
The Chosen Ones: Thursday in Manhattan
Filmmaker Wendla Nölle brings her documentary The Chosen Ones to New York for a premiere screening tomorrow night. The debut film, which includes an interview with yours truly (sporting an unfortunate haircut ...
Who Wants to Be Mr. Mitzvah?
The greatest television show in broadcast history was not The Sopranos, but rather it is Who Wants To Be A Superhero? The ultra-campy Sci-Fi Channel original series which begins airing Season 2 on July 26 makes...
