After getting up in the middle of the night for a bathroom visit, I woke up this morning feeling weak and washed out, but perhaps fit for duty at work. Carol made oatmeal and I ate some of that. Bad idea. Very bad idea. I don’t know what this is that’s got me, but it’s hanging on way too long. Back to bed.
Joe Sinnott depicted first black President in 1964
Various news services, including NPR’s website last February, picked up the story that in 1964 there was a comic book that predicted/depicted the first black candidate for American President. In January, this video about the comic book series was posted on YouTube. (Turn down the sound if you don’t like “Switched-On Bach”!)
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The man who illustrated those comic books is Joe Sinnott. I took this picture of Joe with his son Mark in New York on Saturday. Dennis provided the comics.
Down and out in New York
I’m back home from my New York visit with Denro. Friday and Saturday were good, but I fell ill about 4 am on Sunday. I don’t know how I survived the Amtrak train ride back to suburban Boston, especially because Dennis and I had to stand for the first half hour due to overbooking. Eventually they opened the business class car.
Driving home from the train station I nearly passed out twice and swerved off the road, but I made it. Fell into bed fully clothed at 8:30 pm, not bothering to even brush my teeth, and didn’t wake up until nearly 10 in the morning, except for a bathroom visit in the middle of the night. Carol suspects food poisoning. I haven’t eaten in 42 hours and I still haven’t fully recovered, so it’ll be a while before I post more.
Happy Birthday, Petula Clark!
Isn’t she great, folks?
K3 Hoes Down
Is there a K3 video that I don’t like? Yes! The one where they get pig noses.
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Giving Karen, Kristel and Kathleen pig noses and ears is just too weird, and I prefer to listen to, but not see, “Biggetjes”.
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/K3/K3Piggies.mp3|titles=De 3 Biggetjes by K3]Here comes the sun
With gas now below $2.50/gal. — excuse me, $2.25! — once again, we can be sure the run-up in price was due far more to speculation than supply-and-demand. Will everybody now forget the pump going past $50 for a fill up?
Here are a couple of interesting and complementary items about solar energy. The first one was sent by my father…
http://www.truthout.org/110508EA
…and this one is from tastewar.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/
tastewar mentioned something today that I’ve been wondering about — why are people excited about 45 mpg mileage? I bought a brand-new Honda Civic in 1989, with a standard transmission and no air conditioning, and in the warmer weather it got 65 mpg, no fooling.