The question nobody asked has been answered. What if a Peanuts cartoon were done like Yellow Submarine?
CAPITOL BUILDING CLOSED!
The recording studios in the Capitol Records building that is. Steve Hoffman reports on Facebook that he has been told, “Capitol Tower Studios is closed and staff has been let go.”
Follow-up from Hoffman: “I was informed by someone who should know that only the mastering department was shut down and laid off. Studios are currently closed due to LA county covid guidelines. Studio engineering staff still around.”
Ex-XP PC
This post brought to you via Q4OS, a lightweight Linux distribution, running on the first laptop I ever bought. This Compaq Presario 2200 came from CompUSA more than 15 years ago. The last time I used it was probably ten years ago.
I could have installed Linux alongside Windows XP SP3, but I wiped the drive for a clean start. I first tried Lubuntu, but performance was terrible. Lubuntu failed to find the WiFi hardware, but I’m on WiFi now with Q4OS. Typing reminds me how good the action on laptop keyboards used to be. A fun little project.
Correction: I should have said “the first Windows laptop I ever bought.” My first home PC was a Panasonic DOS dual-floppy laptop with monochrome screen and CGA composite video output that could display on a regular TV.
Follow-up: I installed VLC Media Player and a region-free DVD plays fine, but other DVD’s cannot be opened. It seems a command line utility is needed to set region 1 for the DVD player.
Capitolism
OOPSIE, PBS Newshour! It’s “Capitol,” not “capital.” Is there an intern you can blame?
Paging Miss Page
Anita Page when she was young…
… and Anita Page when she was old.
And young again. As you can see, Anita’s success had more to do with her very considerable sex appeal than her acting ability.
Carlyle the Obscure
In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the final Calvin & Hobbes comic strip on December 31, here’s another Carlyle & Hobson parody I drew 30 years ago. Some of them I rendered carefully, others not, as you can see.
I first thought about imitating MacCaulay Culkin’s famous poster pose from the movie, but decided against it. Nobody was ever going to see this anyway, but I guess I was wrong about that.