Cartooning – Page 96 – Prattling Before the Pratfall

Sketch Mad

I was going to save this for New Year’s Eve, but I’ve got nuttin’ else to offer at the moment. Maybe I’ll collect more sketches next week.

One of the most familiar pieces in the traditional Classical music repertoire is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Overplayed.” I’m up for listening to it again, thanks to this early stereo recording that should be heard with a decent pair of headphones to best appreciate its sonic splendor (with apologies to the hearing impaired).

And oh, by the way…

Another post that ticks three blog categories!

ABBA Above All

This past week on the DVR I watched the PBS documentary The Eugenics Crusade, showing how the American Eugenics movement contributed to Hitler’s nightmare of a Master Race. Then I watched a PBS fundraiser feature, ABBA Forever: A Celebration. The two programs have a connection in the person of Frida, whose mother bore her as a German soldier’s “Lebensborn” baby, during the Nazi occupation of Norway.

Speaking of PBS, that’s where A Charlie Brown Christmas can be watched tonight. Quite a switch from decades of airing on commercial TV. And with that comment, this posts ticks three of my blog categories.

The Corbenite Maneuver

As a mere lad attending the 1971 Worldcon in Boston, I saw this experimental short film by the exceptionally talented artist Richard Corben, best known for his work in Heavy Metal. According to Corben’s wife, he died on December 2, age 80, following heart surgery.