If a joke falls flat does anyone hear it? The following cartoons didn't sell anywhere but are personal all-time favorites of mine. By all-time favorites, I mean they were the clinkers from my usual batch of cartoons this week.

 

Aaah, the… Read full post »

 

It’s simple. I need to get funny and get funny fast. Loved ones around me are depending on it. Tension is high around the dinner table ("Show me the funny!"). A timetable has been placed on my quest (next Thursday). 

 

 

I have begun to… Read full post »

 (I want to thank and apologize to those who sent me emails and comments. While on the book tour I was without internet (or cell phone reception) and after the icestorm, I lost heat and electricity while… Read full post »

_{Bob Eckstein copyright © 2009}

Sorry if I'm not doing cartwheels over Dan Brown's big day. I simply never bought into his stories which just seem, for me, not convincing and sensationalizing my religion. I'm also bias because of inane conservations I'm suffered through at snotty… Read full post »

NEW YORK, NY–A shocking revelation regarding Open Salon came to fruition this morning when an undisclosed blogger shared the following labeled photographs bringing to light a shocking Open Salon secret. While… Read full post »

  

Detail from editorial done in 2004 for Time Out NY. 

Why work for The Post? (Why did I just write an editorial piece for them?)

If you’re a true writer or artist you want your work to make a difference. Looking for new clients I often seek publications with/… Read full post »

 

 

_{The following is an excerpt of my commencement speech made last Friday night at The Hamlin Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Vocational Institute. Although I am NOT terminally ill, in all honesty, I have not been feeling all that great since I would say around the holidays;}

 

Welcome to Part IV of my eighteen part series, Best Advice For Writing Your Novel, which I’ll admit may or may not have begun with John Blumenthal's post and Caroline Hagood's but the ideas were flying so fast and furious it was hard to keep track. That said,… Read full post »

I want to give a big thanks to OSer Lonnie Lazar, who wrote a profile about me & my office for the June issue of Mac Life. Lonnie writes for Cult of Mac and Voxilla as well.   Cartoon inspired by/…

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^{Comment I left on Kerry's blog;}

I love football and haven't missed a Giant game since '32 but I haven't seen a Super Bowl in years (except those with the NY Giants).

Every year I leave a Super Bowl party early and drive through… Read full post »

To respond to inquiries as to what ever happened to T-Bucket and the Snowman...we found God. On Facebook. We are now doing God's work, getting out the good word. On Facebook.

(click one of the two halves below to enlarge and read.)

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So the theme for this group of cartoons is extermities. This weekend is opening week in the NFL (tomorrow is the first game) but of course I have a wedding & a bris the same weekend as the Giant opener and the US Open finals. I need three… Read full post »

 

In light of my ill-timed cartoon yesterday on writers shooting themselves and some of the mud-slingin, name-calling posts (crap headlines like; "Why Do ---holes Join OS?" Gee, why don't you tell us, buddy? If I hear another dirtbag making fun of another OS writer I swear I'm… Read full post »

A letter to my friends: OS and me. We need to talk. I was robbed right here on Open Salon and many are thinking, man, your balls are huge for coming out like this but I lost the Lexus contest unfairly! Where is the outrage?!? Can OS members be picked as… Read full post »

 

Even Santa had a tough year

 

 

Wishing you & yours a very merry

bailout in the new year.

 

 

 

 

 

(Holiday Cai Guo–Qiang)

 

Special thanks for the holiday greetings I received.

Happy New Year, Open… Read full post »