Here’s something to brighten your day, one week into what promises to be another dark year under DJT’s heel.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Parlez-vous Bed-in?
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.
French Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59020
English Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59104
Spectacular Spider-Scan
Spectacular Spider-Man #1 from 1968 is my only black & white e-book comic. Making it the only one suitable for viewing on my Kindle e-reader.
Birds of a Feather
Maureen Starkey is missing from this Sixties portrait of ladies who had Beatles, Stones, and Donovan personal relationships.
What’s a TLA?
I like today’s installment of Dennis the Menace, but can’t legally embed all of it. So, follow the link below.
https://comicskingdom.com/dennis-the-menace/2026-01-04
Also good from King Features today:
https://comicskingdom.com/dustin/2026-01-04
https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible/2026-01-04
I wonder if King Features retains some rights to the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine?
Permission Granted
China strongly condemned the overnight U.S. strike on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, calling the action “deeply shocking” and a serious violation of international law. The attack came hours after a Chinese special envoy met with the Venezuelan leader to reaffirm Beijing’s support for the imperiled regime.
Xi Jinping likely sees Trump’s action as being justification for China to seize control of Taiwan.