I’m writing this with a tear in my eye. My heart is broken, as is my family’s. We lost out little Pompoo, Lola, today when she was struck by a car. She had gotten overly excited and ran into the street. She was 5 years old. It’s hard to describe what this hideously ugly little pooch [...]

FIRESIGN THEATRE: “FORWARD, INTO THE PAST! CELEBRATING NICK DANGER’S 40TH BIRTHDAY” Friday, April 24, 2009 at the beautiful Golden State Theater, Monterey, California Tonight, through the miracle of Internet shopping, the lovely Mrs. Beans and I scored our tickets for this rare live performance by the leg

Happy post-Christmas. You know, as a Buddhist, Christmas has to be my favorite holiday. I like stuff. I’m not “attached” to it, mind you, but I have fun with it. Here’s some of my favorite goodies from this year’s materialistic orgy… Look! Actual authenticated dirt from Dodger Stadium!

Regular readers of this blog know I’m a huge “Bizarro” fan. I think Dan Piraro is one of the most creative, witty and technically brilliant cartoonists currently working (or not working, for that matter). He comes up with more great gags in a week than I could ever hope to write in a year. Not many [...]

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Not since Barnum first unveiled his geeks has there been a sideshow with quite the same oddball curiosity factor and heart-wrenching pathos as the one that will be on display at the Enjoy magazine offices this Saturday. Witness for yourselves, ladies and germs, the world’s first and only gnomelike “improv cartoo

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I’ve been busy with work. Real work. Work that pays with actual coin of the realm. I’m a happy Crayolateer! I’ve got the bread and butter “Creative Tech” gig for the Marketing wing of a local casino that’s proving to be a lot of fun while it pays the bills. I work there with some very [..

The purported poetry, prose and insightful commentary of one Philberto D. Cartoonio, Esq. Plus drawings, cartoons and 2-dimensional renderings pandering to the Absurdist in all of us. Look for it, March, 2009. I wonder if I should tell Ferlinghetti to get ready? Posted in Thoughts & Musings    

I have a couple of NEW POSTS over on Food for Thought: A News Cafe. Go ahead, check it out. Go on. Click already… Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A NEWS CAFE’S HACK CARTOONIST SET TO SWINDLE RUBES, YOKELS AND GULLIBLE ART LOVERS FOR CHARITY. It’s official. Hawkman Studios, Food for Thought: A News Cafe and the good folks at Enjoy Magazine have teamed up to help brighten the holidays for those folks who find they could use a little warm

Personally, I don’t see what’s so objectionable about this blog. I mean, if not being funny was a crime Gallagher would be a third-striker. Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

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Well, we tried. Don’t blame us if things get all…whacky. Order your bumpersticker from Cafe Press today! Any proceeds will go to the People of Progress and the Shasta Women’s Refuge. Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

The first (albeit crude) attempt at a Flash animated cartoon is now posted for global ridicule at Food for Thought: A News Cafe. Hey, they’ll get better…I hope. Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

A new installment of “Philbert’s Phavorite Phiresign Phunnies” has been posted on the Firesign Theatre fanzine site, “It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here”… go ahead, take a sec and check it out…it’s not like you’re busy or anything. Posted in Thoughts 

Hey Blogaphiliacs, Due to some rather serious and disconcerting computer woes I have been most recently absent from Cyberland — but, I’m back with a quick sketchbook entry. Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

I just had to share this bit from  PLANET PROCTOR, Phil Proctor’s hilarious (and very wise) web site. I know it’ll tick off my friends Tom and Don (hey, I still love you guys), but it’s too rich to not share… DEAR RED STATES We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we�

OK, so I canned him. Why does he have to go and try and make a monkey out of me? The hairy little nit picker with toilet training issues has started his own blog, Mr. Jinks, The Typewriting Chimp. Loyalty? Not from the lower primates. Not yet. Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

I get a lot of crackpots writing in to Philbertosophy, none pottier than my nearly beloved. She saw another McCain/Palin ad. She had seen quite a few and just simmered and muttered under her breath (like a lot of us) but this time Mac & Lucy Ricardo’s retarded cousin made her head explode. I’ll go [...]

As you know, I’m a Firehead. I’ve been a fan since the AM-radio days when they broadcast Radio Free Oz from L.A.’s Magic Mushroom. So, to say I was thrilled to see the fanzine, “It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here” resuscitated and living “on the intertube” would be an

OK. I pump out a lotta crapola, most of it not fit for “appropriate” websites. Well, that just means its gotta be good for Philbertosophy, right? A community activist group here in town said they’d back my campaign for city council if I gave them ad space on my blog…I figure ’squid go pro’

  How Does A Local Blogger Stand Such Times and Live?   As our country spirals down the economic porcelain bowl and we face the most devastating financial crises since The Great Depression, I’m left to wonder how I’ll be able to maintain my blog.   Unlike many bloggers you may be familiar with, I strive to bring you

I gotta share what’s goin’ on over at Harry Ames, Jr.’s blog! Who is this guy?!? Posted in Thoughts & Musings      

Somehow or other I’ve become associated with a local character and former child star, Harry Ames, Jr. The truth is, I don’t know him very well and have never met him face-to-face. But, he was quick to jump on the Write-In Philbert for city council bandwagon and has done most of the work - which leaves [...]

I won’t be at tonight’s CD release party for Still Married’s new disc. Seems that both my wife and I, in a rare showing of solidarity, have come down with some kind of bug. I was looking forward to the campoon’s stop in Palo Cedro, but I don’t think my current physical condition is conducive [.

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Harry Ames, Jr. sent the following press release… Philbert D. Cartoonist, write-in candidate for Redding City Council, will be in attendance at Still Married’s CD release party for their new Sacramento River Whispers. The event will take place on Saturday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m. at Little Filly’s Pizz

OK, I don’t usually post stuff circulating as an E-mail (unless its from a Liberian finance minister) but I found this amusing. Regardless of your political stripe you can see what happens to “truth” out there…check it out… I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight….

Here at the Moloch Valley Daily Beagle we’re journalists first and pawns of a corporate conglomerate second. We have integrity, I know because I’ve been selling it for months now. You can trust and believe what you see in The Beagle because we only omit the facts that don’t make the grade. Most of these [

OK, I know you guys are sick of hearing me rant about this bill, but it’s still floating around out there and we need to band together as creatives to “nip this in the bud” as Barney Fife would say. Let’s not let Google and it’s all-consuming desire to kill art (or at least artists) stop [...]

Over the course of his last few releases, Ry Cooder, guitarist extrordinaire and renowned musicologist and producer has regaled us with some gutsy and brilliantly developed “concept” albums. “Chavez Ravine” was a musical docudrama on the displacement of a Hispanic Angeleno neighborhood to make way fo

OK, there have been some pretty fair albums so far this year but none have hit me like “Dig! Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I think part of the reason is that Mr. Cave had sort of the same take on the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead as [...]

For those of you who might not have heard, I just found out that local author, columnist and trophy husband, Steve Brewer, has had his wonderful book, “Lonely Street” made into a major motion picture starring Jay Mohr and Joe Mantegna. It’s having its world premiere at the 2008 Boston Film Festival next we

OK, this cracked me up.

A constant parade of booze, babes and Cadillacs… and dough, wads and wads of dough…

Thom G at Surface Tension tagged me with the following: Post the rules on your blog Write 6 random things about yourself Tag 6 people at the end of your post If you’re tagged, DO IT and pass on the tag… 1. I am deathly afraid of Thom G. Yes, I know he’s a million miles away in Idaohio or [...]

Over at Harry’s website, Philbert for City Council.

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Over at Pink Hollyhock, the esteemed Kelly Brewer made a wonderful point about online ads being web writers (and cartoonists) “tip jar.” It’s true. Many creative professionals who use the web as an outlet for their talents are looking to make their living by providing Internet content (like me) and it ain&