Something that has somehow escaped my awareness until now is Joe Biden’s fondness for the Hagar the Horrible comic strip from March 6, 1984.
Roto Retro
Yesterday, Boing Boing shared this Vox video from a few years ago, so I’ll share it today.
The Fleischers featured Cab Calloway in a delightfully bizarre animated adaptation of Snow White, four years before Disney’s take on the tale. Micky Mouse makes a quick cameo. This is the stuff that inspired the creation of Cuphead.
1983
I’d flown from Boston to somewhere, wearing a suit and tie, and I was in an awful Plymouth K-Car rental with the radio on, driving to a hospital to install a medical laboratory computer system. This is a song I associate with that time in my life, the work I was doing, and all of the traveling required to do it. Bring back the 80’s!
Blogs and Pods for Troggs
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Florida Ends Cape Cod Labor Shortage!
Florida governor Ron DeSantis thinks outside the box to offer fellow Republican governor Charlie Baker a solution to the labor shortage on his state’s coastal vacation spot, Cape Cod.
We’ll Stand For Your Indictment, Donald
Trump warns of problems like we’ve never seen before if he’s indicted? With his limited vocabulary he always says “never seen before” instead of “unprecedented,” and we’ve already endured plenty of his big problems before now. Lock him up and shut him up.