Let’s wash out the bad taste of failed L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt with the ‘Happy Days’ theme song, performed by Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain.
The success of American Graffiti — “Where were you in ’62?” — motivated ABC-TV to pick up Happy Days as a series. ‘Graffiti’ celebrates a bygone era that was only ten years gone by. In between, the Sixties changed everything.
Ten years ago, Donald Trump was running for president. Today is Donald’s 80th birthday, and we’re stuck in the Trump doom loop.
Yesterday was the annual party, my first, of the New England Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. Former chapter chairman Mark Parisi, the 2025 NCS Cartoonist of the Year, presented a survey of his life in cartooning.
Mark Parisi at the An Unlikely Story bookstore, Plainville, MA
Mark showed examples of cartoons he had created that had been subjected to the generative AI treatment by parties unknown. Cartoonists are now in the difficult circumstance of being accused of stealing ideas that were, in fact, stolen from them. AAUGH!
August will be the 80th annual National Cartoonists Society meeting and awards dinner. It’s being held in conjunction with the recently renovated and reopened Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library in Columbus, Ohio. The library holds the collection of original Calvin & Hobbes comic strips, donated by Bill Watterson.
A touring exhibit, Exploring Calvin & Hobbes, has been curated by the museum. When it arrives at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, the NE NCS chapter is planning to be there.
Bob Metcalfe rhapsodizes about working on ARPANET interfaces, the pre-Internet project that Bob Taylor headed.
Metcalfe later worked for Taylor at Xerox PARC, where he was a primary developer of what became Ethernet. Bob provides historical context for “America’s Technology Highway,” Route 128.
What, you think that’s a reference to the 25th Amendment being invoked to remove the 47th president? No, I’m referring to the only passage in the Bible that is chapter 25, verse 47.
Leviticus 25:4747 “‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, 48 they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:
As relevant today as it was in Old Testament times! Leviticus is also, of course, the book of the Bible that’s quoted by opponents of gay rights.
Leviticus 20:13
“‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
The “put to death” part seems to be contrary to the Sixth Commandment, but what ev’.
