Agreeing with Karl Rove
Rep. Jamie Raskin On Surviving A Double Blow of Tragedy and Finding the Strength to Lead
The “Gaslighting” of Jan. 6: TV News Grapples With Capitol Riot a Year Later
Examining mental health issues among black men – A Guide To Freedom
Letting Go: Wisdom From Our Grief
The quits rate, the percentage of resignations relative to total employment is the highest on record
How to help you stop being so late (or at least make you more honest about it)
Lowell, MA Mayor Sokhary Chau is the first Cambodian American mayor in the nation
Groundbreaking of the Maternal Center of Excellence in Kono, Sierra Leone
Should We Ban Jingle Bells?
MCU’s Hawkeye and a Theology of Disability
Dick Cavett interviewing Mel Brooks. The Bill Cullen story
The NYS Thruway, c 1951
How to Rescue Your Photos From an Old Computer
Synchro-Vox: The lips move, but not much else. (Think of Clutch Cargo)
Now I Know: How to Lick a Killer Serve and Profit That’s Easy as Pie and Frosty, The Snowman Reaction and Mr. Bubble, Pink Super Hero and
The Stinging Feeling of Expertise e
Obits
John Madden Honored Across the NFL on First Sunday After His Death. I really knew that the player/coach/broadcaster with 16 Emmys/video game consultant was significant when my wife, who does not follow football, wanted to watch the special about Madden, which first aired only three days before his unexpected death.
Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-Nominated Director, Dies at 82 (The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon)
Trailblazing feminist author, critic, and activist bell hooks has died at 69
Harry Reid remembered as a fighter, skilled Senate dealmaker
Remembering Franklin Thomas, the first Black foundation president in America
The US’s oldest surviving WWII Vet, Lawrence Brooks, has died at 112
Dwayne Hickman, Star of ‘The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,’ Dies at 87
Bob Saget Dies at 65. I didn’t watch Full House or AFV, but I’m taken how well-respected he was by other performers.
Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes died at age 78
Laura Curtis, the MIL of my eldest niece, died. I have only one memory of her, which is here
Language
From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
Graminovore – An animal that feeds on grass
Granivore – An animal that feeds on grain and seeds
Ecdysiast is a fancy word for stripper
Either or neither of three?
Inspired by Roger Owen Green
Ask Arthur Anything: To blog, or not to blog and Biblical endings and me and NZ seriousness, me, and fun
To love the Three Stooges is to love America.
MUSIC
Move On – Bernadette Peters from Sunday in the Park With George.
Sondheim medley in a roadside diner – Carol Burnett, Tony Roberts, and Bernadette Peters
The 2021 (reduced) mashups
Coverville: 1384 and 1385: The 2021 Coverville countdown. 1386: The David Bowie 75th Birthday Cover Story
Put Down The Duckie – Sesame Street
The Trolley Song – Voctave
Franklin Shepard Inc. from Merrily We Roll Along, London 2013
I Liked Me Better -Lauv
Catch Us If You Can – The Jalopy Five
At This Performance – Christine Pedi as Liza Minelli
Musicians who passed in 2021, Part One and Part Two
