The death of Christine (Perfect) McVie will get plenty of attention elsewhere. This is a place where you will read that Robert Crumb’s wife Aline has passed away.
As cartoonists, Robert and Aline were as close as it got to a “John and Yoko marriage.”
Aline’s passing comes not long after the death of Bill Griffith’s wife Diane Noomin. Friends with Aline, Diane was also an underground cartoonist.
Jim Dawson played this on his Not Fade Away show last week.
If that isn’t enough fun for you, here’s the full album treatment.
Got caught up on a week’s worth of The Boston Globe today.
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” is quite a disappointment after reading the celebrated “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Marie is a tedious accounting of detective Dupin’s laborious thought process in breaking down the information that’s available about the murder. I attribute the story’s failure to Poe taking the events directly from an actual contemporary murder, rather than coming from his own imagination. I’ll move on to “The Purloined Letter,” which has a much better reputation.
My retirement life is increasingly filled with YouTube and Podcasts. Is that better than being stuck on Facebook and Instagram?
Going all the way back to 2016, Radiolab has a spin-off podcast about the Supreme Court, called More Perfect. They recently reran this early installment about a decision from the time of JFK’s administration.
Recorded a year after the first Covid lockdown, something suitable to continue my reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin.
