What Joe Sinnott was to Marvel, his friend Joe Giella was to DC. Joe passed away yesterday at age 94.
Mark Evanier has this remembrance.
DC 94 yr. GIANT, Joe Giella
Month: March 2023
Hanks Picks the Hits
This promo video with Tom Hanks mentions High Quality Sound. I can confirm the audio stream is an impressive 192 Kbps CBR MP3. Debbie Daughtry tells me that’s thanks to Boss Radio 66 now being exclusively on TuneIn.
Here’s something else Tom will be doing:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/tom-hanks-named-2023-commencement-speaker/
The Hometown Brew
Getting in the mood for tonight’s Big Planet Noise, where I call myself Beantown Doug.
Interest in Banking
Frontline has this timely report called ‘Age of Easy Money’.
My position is that the Fed needs to add a third mandate to its duty of maximizing employment while keeping inflation in check. It’s my contention that to meet those two goals, the “other inflation” — Wall Street — also needs to be kept in check. Otherwise, you end up with what we have now. Neel Kashkari has exactly the opposite opinion, as heard at this point in the documentary.
There’s an implicit threat in what Kashkari says, as if he’s speaking on behalf of investment bankers — Hurt the rich people on Wall Street, in any way at all, and regular people will suffer.
The Big Bangs of 1973
1973 saw the creation of Disco and the Xerox Alto system. Disco may no longer be a thing, but everything created at Xerox PARC is very much with us today. I am reading this book.
The IEEE, in charge of the WiFi technology you’re probably using right now, and also Ethernet if that’s what you’re using, has this brief history of Xerox PARC.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto
Here’s some Disco. TSOP — The Sound of Philadelphia — by the late Thom Bell.
On Stage and On Film
Barter Theatre in Virginia was featured on last night’s PBS NewsHour.
As explained in the video, Barter Theatre includes actors from New York. My mother was one of them, after completing the program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In addition to the plays produced at home base, Barter’s actors traveled, performing plays throughout the region. The troupe of actors my mother was with included Ernest Borgnine, who she called Ernie. Borgnine did double duty as an actor and as the bus driver. Ernie enjoyed it so much, driving his own buses became a lifelong avocation.
CBS Sunday Morning covered the very important work of film restoration and preservation. The amazing results seen today wouldn’t be possible without digital technology.