Gordon Parks’ Jim Crow photos still resonate, alas.
David Brooks of the NY Times: The Brutalism of Ted Cruz.
Amy Biancolli: Not alone at being alone.
Affluenza and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What militants and the pungent salad radish have in common.
The New Yorker: My Last Day as a Surgeon. “In May of 2013, the Stanford University neurosurgical resident Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic lung cancer. He was thirty-six years old.”
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. “Workplaces need more walls, not fewer,” something I’m painfully aware of.
‘Lost’ Jerry Lewis Holocaust film sees the light.
Your favorite movies, re-edited, including Of Oz The Wizard, the movie arranged in alphabetical order, from Aah to Zipper. Don’t watch “of”, if you value your sanity.
Periodic table’s seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added, and the song to go with it.
British actor Alan Rickman, star of stage and ‘Harry Potter,’ dies at 69. Here are his Top 20 movie quotes.
2015: SamuraiFrog’s 50 favorite pop culture artifacts and the year in 4 minutes.
2016 in the Capital District: Salaries, food and taxes, have yourself a nice hot cup of coffee while you still can.
Metroland, RIP, and Albany’s alternative weekly Metroland nostalgic, bittersweet final issue.
TEDx: James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email.
Music!
The Drifters: A Legacy of Harmony
The Beatles’ 50 Biggest Billboard Hits.
SCIENCE WARS – A capella Parody
“Cortez the Killer” – Anders Osbourne Band with Warren Haynes and Danny Louis, Island Exodus 1/18/2013
Muppets: Kodachrome and Pure Imagination.
Comics!
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain.
Morrie Turner dies at 90; broke barriers in comics.
FOUNDER OF RUTHLESS COMICS MONOPOLY SPEAKS OUT IN FAVOR OF INCOME INEQUALITY. That would be Steve Geppi of Diamond Comics Distribution.
Coming Out as Gay Superheroes.
A Nigerian comics startup is creating African superheroes.
Google alert (me)
Is Arthur a blog cheat? (I don’t think so). And he credited/blamed me for him getting out 365 blog posts in 2015. You’re welcome.