There are lots of tributes to voiceover man Don LaFontaine, who was far from the end of his career when he died, but that won’t stop me from doing one myself. I’ll embed this video, and YouTube will toss in a playlist of hopefully related clips.
VP to be to a “Tee”
You’ve probably already seen this — has anybody talked about anything else today? — but I wouldn’t want you to miss this photo of Sarah Palin, taken in her college days at the University of Idaho.
“Click to enlarge” has an extra special meaning in this instance. 😉
Juno, Alaska
Well, that’s one blog post title that wrote itself. So how’s Obama’s judgment looking now, compared to McCain’s?
The Palin baby has Down Syndrome, making it more likely the daughter isn’t pregnant with her second child, but I suppose that’s still a possibility. If Palin resigns it will be because of Republican pressure. I would expect the hard-core GOP base to feel that, given the circumstances in the Palin household, Sarah should quit working and take care of her family.
Minding our P’s & Q’s
This is how it sounds outside of our house tonight.
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FBOFW
Lynn Johnston has finished her comic strip “For Better Or For Worse.” It’s now a somewhat ironic title, given that Lynn and her husband are divorcing, but she didn’t call the strip “Till Death Do Us Part.”
I enjoyed FBOFW very much for a long time, but my interest petered out towards the end. Eric hit the spot when he described it as having turned into a “chicken soup for the soul sort of thing.”
Johnston belongs to what I believe is pretty much the last generation of syndicated newspaper comic strip creators. For better or for worse, the great, grand age of print media is over, having been replaced by electronic media.
I scanned the last daily and Sunday installments of FBOFW from the Boston Globe. I for one still get home delivered newspapers, but I have to admit I don’t jump on them right away like I used to, because I get most of my news online and from NPR.
Johnston owes something to Sparky Schulz, and she has expressed that gratitude elsewhere, but it would have been nice for her to acknowledge it in her last Sunday panel.
Arthur Godfrey at 105
DogRat regular Jan, who is a devoted fan of Arthur Godfrey, points out that August 31 would have been his 105th birthday. In recognition of this, here is Godfrey in a 1951 appearance on “What’s My Line.”
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I have found a connection between Arthur Godfrey and Petula Clark, in the person of Rod McKuen, Pet’s longtime friend and sometimes colllaborator. McKuen appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts around 1956.
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