This is just so much fun. Colbert is my guy.
Republicans want us to see a shrink
The diminutive Robert Reich, standing tall on his soapbox.
I’m amused by the GOP argument that the wealthiest 1% of Americans won’t work as hard if they don’t get more money, because they’re borrowing the union idea of a work slowdown.
For Trekkies only
What parent would let their kid out of the house on Halloween wearing this?
Ignorance isn’t Bliss
Harry Bliss is a savvy and cynical cartoonist-illustrator whose work appears in The New Yorker, and his Bliss comic strip is in the Boston Globe. Bliss lives in Vermont, and the Democrat and Chronicle up there did this profile on him.
A ‘Cul de Sac’ in Hill Valley
Maybe you’ve heard that Marty McFly is auctioning replicas of his famous back-to-the-futuristic Nike sneakers, to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Another fundraiser for the MJ Fox Foundation is Team Cul De Sac, named after the delightfully fanciful comic strip by Richard Thompson, who has Parkinson’s. A book is in the works, full of contributions from many different artists, including a painting by Bill Watterson, of the Cul de Sac character Petey.
When the book is published, the original art will be auctioned. Here’s a video preview.
Five years
I haven’t written anything for a week, which is a rather sorry lead-in to today, being five years since I started this weblog. Five years was the time between the Beatles coming to America and the Let It Be rooftop concert. This past week I’ve been reading and running and thinking and ripping CD’s in WMA lossless format, to be played on the super-sounding Logitech Touch. This screenshot is from the free Windows application that works with the free Logitech music server software.
Here’s a photo Rolling Stone magazine posted that really knocks me out, man.
There’s George Harrison, in his Beatle suit, September 1963 (possibly early October), at the height of Beatlemania in England, but he was in New York, unknown and anonymous! I wonder if anybody who saw George that day at the Empire State Building recognized him 4-5 months later when the Beatles arrived in New York?