Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! My Boston Scientific BodyGuardian® MINI is here! Seven days of cardiac monitoring to confirm all is well, then no more Eliquis!
Eating the Americone Dream
Stephen Colbert’s TV show may be ending, but not his ice cream!
License to License
Unlike Comics Kingdom, GoComics cartoons can be licensed for various purposes, including blog posts. It’s $35 for a non-commercial license, with another $10 for a service fee.
I already had a problem with licensing strips. The latest credit card expiration year they provide is 2028, and only one of my cards has that date. The others are later. Without that card it wouldn’t be possible for me to license a comic strip for display here.
But now it’s a moot point, because even using the 2028 card, my latest order didn’t work. I’ve been charged only the $10 service fee. They’re breaking the #1 rule of business — don’t make it difficult for people to give you money.
I’ll tell ya what. Here’s a link to the comic strip I wanted to have here.
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2025/07/11
Assuming they can fix their problems I’ll get a license, download my copy, and either update this post or publish a new one.
Art Spiegelman will be attending the NCS conference in Boston in August, and so will I. If I continue to be frustrated in my attempts to license comic strips, I’m sure someone from Andrews/McMeel will be there.
Colbert Cancel Culture!
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will end in May 2026, Colbert and CBS announced on Thursday. The company said it will retire “The Late Show” franchise, and called it “purely a financial decision.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-late-show-stephen-colbert-end-may-2026/
This decision is Shari Redstone trying to further influence Trump to approve the Paramount buyout. That’s how this is financial. Before the shocker announcement, I was intending to post last night’s opening monologue.
If Colbert is being canceled, then I’ll self-cancel. “Prattling Before the Pratfall” will end on its 20th anniversary, September 5, 2026.
Taking the Biden Path
Yeah, Biden extended Powell’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank — after Trump appointed him to the post. Which Donny now only maybe, sort of, remembers doing?
It’s generally agreed that Biden was showing signs of cognitive impairment when he was 80. Trump is now 79. Perhaps being president is having a similar effect on him.
Down at the Dump
I listen to Internet radio stations both near and far. One that isn’t too far from here is WATD-FM, based in Marshfield, MA.
The station’s call letters stand for “We’re At the Dump.” Its founder and owner is a gentleman named Ed Perry, who has some stories to tell.
This Perry anecdote reminds me very much of what happened to me on August 16, 1977.
“One Sunday morning in February 1959, I was playing rock and roll when the teletype started printing furiously from The Associated Press,” he recalled. “It was about the plane crash in Iowa that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. I read the news over the air, and the rest of the day I only played music from those three guys.”
I was freshly graduated from college and working as a DJ at a small AM radio station in Western Massachusetts, when the AP teletype started printing furiously. Elvis Presley was dead.
