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The Sunday Funnies – Surprise

As mentioned here not too long ago, Gannett/USA Today has standardized the selection of comic strips its member papers can use. By chance, last Sunday’s local Gannett paper included a surprise. In addition to the regular comics, shown on the left, there was the comics section for the Burlington Free Press, on the right.

And lookee at that. Burlington has four pages of Sunday comics, with the first two pages being identical to my local edition.

The long, slow withdrawal from printed newspapers in general, and syndicated comic strips in particular, continues. It’s just a little bit less painful in Vermont.

Hitching Post

More Hitchcock, legal and free on YouTube… for now.

Update: They’re expiring. I’ll find substitutes where I can.

Hitchcock’s youngest leading lady was Nova Pilbeam, who was only 17 years old when she starred in Young and Innocent.

Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood, with on-screen chemistry that has never been surpassed.

Grace Kelly could wrap any man, including Hitch, around her pinky finger.
https://youtu.be/AbcIGBhOrog

Tippi Hendron couldn’t handle Hitch the way Grace did, and he crossed the line with her.
https://youtu.be/UfS5F5IQNtg

Nova Pilbeam, 1919-2015

Busy!

I’ve been working on several projects, mostly the techie type. Have a couple of posts in the works that require some extra thought in expressing the points I want to make. I’ll be back when the first one is done, or if I happen to have something quick and easy to put here.

Oh! Here’s something. It’s been missing in the notices about Henry Kissinger’s death.

Empathy with Mimi for 11/22/63

Mimi Beardsley
Mimi Alford, née Beardsley

Then, at two o’clock P.M., another bulletin, this one official: The President was dead… My head was flooded with images of the President the last time I saw him, just seven days earlier, in the Carlyle. He had hugged me and said he’d call me when he got back from Texas… What sent me over the edge was the image of Dave Powers with his hand on the casket, standing in front of it as if he were guarding the President, then lifting it with other aides into the waiting Navy ambulance… My tears turned into violent, racking sobs…

– Intimate JFK friend Mimi Beardsley